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Agonizing vs Hurt - What's the difference?

agonizing | hurt |

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

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Causing agony.
  • It was an agonizing twenty-minute wait for the results.

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who agonizes.
  • * 1918 , W. H. Hudson, Far Away and Long Ago
  • 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

  • To be painful.
  • Does your leg still hurt ? / It is starting to feel better.
  • To cause (a creature) physical pain and/or injury.
  • If anybody hurts my little brother I will get upset.
  • To cause (somebody) emotional pain.
  • To undermine, impede, or damage.
  • This latest gaffe hurts the MP's reelection prospects still further.

    Synonyms

    * wound, injure

    Derived terms

    * wouldn't hurt a fly

    See also

    * (l)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Wounded, physically injured.
  • Pained.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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
  • I have received a hurt .
  • * John Locke
  • The pains of sickness and hurts all men feel.
  • (archaic) injury; damage; detriment; harm
  • * Shakespeare
  • Thou dost me yet but little hurt .
  • (heraldiccharge) A roundel azure (blue circular spot).
  • (engineering) A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.
  • A husk.
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