Aching vs Hurt - What's the difference?
aching | hurt | Related terms |
That aches; continuously painful.
* (rfdate)
To be painful.
To cause (a creature) physical pain and/or injury.
To cause (somebody) emotional pain.
To undermine, impede, or damage.
An emotional or psychological hurt (humiliation or bad experience)
* How to overcome old hurts of the past
(archaic) A bodily injury causing pain; a wound or bruise.
* 1605 , Shakespeare, King Lear vii
* John Locke
(archaic) injury; damage; detriment; harm
* Shakespeare
(heraldiccharge) A roundel azure (blue circular spot).
(engineering) A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.
A husk.
Aching is a related term of hurt.
As verbs the difference between aching and hurt
is that aching is while hurt is to be painful.As adjectives the difference between aching and hurt
is that aching is that aches; continuously painful while hurt is wounded, physically injured.As nouns the difference between aching and hurt
is that aching is the feeling of an ache; a dull pain while hurt is an emotional or psychological hurt (humiliation or bad experience).aching
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- The aching' heart, the ' aching head.
Derived terms
* achinglyhurt
English
Verb
- Does your leg still hurt ? / It is starting to feel better.
- If anybody hurts my little brother I will get upset.
- This latest gaffe hurts the MP's reelection prospects still further.
Synonyms
* wound, injureDerived terms
* wouldn't hurt a flySee also
* (l)Noun
(en noun)- I have received a hurt .
- The pains of sickness and hurts all men feel.
- Thou dost me yet but little hurt .