Unscramble hurting

Definition of hurting

noun:

• a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder; "the patient developed severe pain and distension". Synonyms: pain.

verb:

• be the source of pain. Synonyms: ache, hurt, smart.
• give trouble or pain to; "This exercise will hurt your back". Synonyms: hurt.
• cause emotional anguish or make miserable; "It pains me to see my children not being taught well in school". Synonyms: anguish, hurt, pain.
• cause damage or affect negatively; "Our business was hurt by the new competition". Synonyms: hurt, injure.
• hurt the feelings of; "She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests", "This remark really bruised my ego". Synonyms: bruise, hurt, injure, offend, spite, wound.
• feel physical pain; "Were you hurting after the accident?". Synonyms: ache, hurt, suffer.
• feel pain or be in pain. Synonyms: hurt, suffer. Antonyms: be well.

Related words

abase, ache, aching, affront, agonise, agonize, agony, ail, arthralgia, bite, burn, burning, catch, causalgia, chagrin, chiralgia, choke, colic, costalgia, diss, distress, dysmenorrhea, excruciate, excruciation, famish, gag, get, glossalgia, glossodynia, gripes, griping, haemorrhoid, have, hemorrhoid, humble, humiliate, hunger, injure, insult, itch, keratalgia, kill, lacerate, mastalgia, melagra, meralgia, metralgia, mortify, myalgia, myodynia, nephralgia, neuralgia, neuralgy, odynophagia, orchidalgia, pain, pang, photalgia, photophobia, piles, pleuralgia, pleurodynia, podalgia, prick, proctalgia, rack, rawness, shoot, smart, smarting, smartness, soreness, starve, sting, stinging, stitch, strangle, suffering, suffocate, tenderness, thermalgesia, thirst, throb, torment, torture, trouble, try, twinge, ulalgia, urodynia, wound.

Words nearby

hunting, hurling.

Rhymes with

alerting, asserting, averting, disconcerting, diverting, diverting, flirting, reverting, shirting, skirting, spurting, squirting.