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hurt
My leg hurts.
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ache
My legs are still aching from my run yesterday.
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throb
My head throbbed.
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sting
His cheeks stung from the aftershave he'd just put on.
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smart
The smoke was thick, making her eyes smart.
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rub
The clothing is cleverly stitched to prevent the seams rubbing anywhere.
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hurt
I hurt my arm climbing over the fence.
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injure
The bomb killed ten people and injured many more.
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wound
He was wounded so badly in the attack that doctors said he might never walk again.
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maim
The atrocities have killed or maimed thousands of people.
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torture
The guards were accused of torturing prisoners.
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stab
He was fatally stabbed with a kitchen knife.
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hurt
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to hurt you.
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hurt someone’s feelings
Don't say anything - you'll hurt her feelings.
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upset
I'm sorry the news upset you.
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wound
He had wounded her pride more than she would ever have admitted.
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pain
It pains me to admit it, but there's nothing I can do to change the situation.
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grieve
It grieved him that he had been the cause of all the bitterness.
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never hurt
Hard
work
never hurt anyone
(= does no one any
harm
)
.
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hurt
| American Dictionary
Care is taken to avoid hurting the other's feelings and to go along with the other rather than make a fuss over trifles.
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Intensity and correlates of fear of falling and hurting oneself in the next year: baseline findings.
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As the crisis deepened and the industry floundered, it became clear that individual approaches were hurting more than they were helping.
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Further, trust in electronic information may interfere with recognizing that these wonderful tools and state-of-the-art data transmission might also increase the likelihood of hurting patients.
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We also believe that some harmful speech can be legally constrained, so it is important not to conflate harms with hurts.
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The hypothesis that democracy hurts growth gets no support at all during the 1970s and 1990s, and is often directly contradicted by the 1980s.
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Many ®rms argued that empowering consumers with a comprehensive contracts law would prove harmful to ®rms that were already hurting from the ongoing recession.
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Decisionism can backfire on the administration, hurting the very prospects of the reforms.
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If we choose not to make atonement for hurting others in the only relevant way - namely directly to them - we must live with this failure.
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When state officials are committed to promoting economic growth, but societal groups demand redistribution, then democracy hurts growth.
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Evidently, this is also the means for the deepest hurts, which neglect no possibility of attack.
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it doesn’t hurt to
do something
idiom
hurt
someone's
feelings
idiom
wouldn't hurt a fly
idiom
it doesn't hurt/never hurts to do
something
idiom
it wouldn't hurt
you
to do
something
idiom
it doesn’t hurt to
have something
, at
it doesn’t hurt to
do something
idiom
sticks and stones may break my bones, (but words can never hurt me)
idiom
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