Agonizing vs Hurt - What's the difference?
agonizing | hurt |
The act of one who agonizes.
* 1918 , W. H. Hudson, Far Away and Long Ago
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.
As adjectives the difference between agonizing and hurt
is that agonizing is causing agony while hurt is wounded, physically injured.As verbs the difference between agonizing and hurt
is that agonizing is while hurt is to be painful.As nouns the difference between agonizing and hurt
is that agonizing is the act of one who agonizes while hurt is an emotional or psychological hurt (humiliation or bad experience).agonizing
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- I never breathed a word of my doubts and mental agonizings to my mother; I spoke to her only of my bodily sufferings; yet she knew it all, and I knew that she knew.
hurt
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 .