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Hurt vs Annoy - What's the difference?

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In lang=en terms the difference between hurt and annoy

is that hurt is to undermine, impede, or damage while annoy is to molest; to harm; to injure.

As verbs the difference between hurt and annoy

is that hurt is to be painful while annoy is to disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to bother with unpleasant deeds.

As nouns the difference between hurt and annoy

is that hurt is an emotional or psychological hurt (humiliation or bad experience) while annoy is a feeling of discomfort or vexation caused by what one dislikes.

As an adjective hurt

is wounded, physically injured.

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.
  • References

    annoy

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to bother with unpleasant deeds.
  • * Prior
  • Say, what can more our tortured souls annoy / Than to behold, admire, and lose our joy?
  • * {{quote-magazine, title=No hiding place
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  • To do something to upset or anger someone; to be troublesome.
  • To molest; to harm; to injure.
  • to annoy an army by impeding its march, or by a cannonade
  • * Evelyn
  • tapers put into lanterns or sconces of several-coloured, oiled paper, that the wind might not annoy them

    Synonyms

    * (to disturb or irritate) bother, bug, hassle, irritate, pester, nag, irk * See also

    Antonyms

    * please

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A feeling of discomfort or vexation caused by what one dislikes.
  • * 1532 (first printing), Geoffrey Chaucer, The Romaunt of the Rose :
  • I merveyle me wonder faste / How ony man may lyve or laste / In such peyne and such brennyng, / [...] In such annoy contynuely.
  • * 1870 , Ralph Waldo Emerson, Sciety and Solitude :
  • if she says he was defeated, why he had better a great deal have been defeated, than give her a moment's annoy .
  • That which causes such a feeling.
  • * 1594 , William Shakespeare, King Rchard III , IV.2:
  • Sleepe in Peace, and wake in Ioy, / Good Angels guard thee from the Boares annoy [...].
  • * 1872 , Robert Browning, "Fifine at the Fair, V:
  • The home far and away, the distance where lives joy, / The cure, at once and ever, of world and world's annoy [...].

    Synonyms

    * (both senses) annoyance

    References

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    Anagrams

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