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Hurt vs Defacement - What's the difference?

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Hurt is a related term of defacement.


As nouns the difference between hurt and defacement

is that hurt is an emotional or psychological hurt (humiliation or bad experience) while defacement is an act of defacing]]; an instance of visibly marring or [[disfigure|disfiguring something.

As a verb hurt

is to be painful.

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.

    • Related terms

    * hurty

    References

    Anagrams

    * 1000 English basic words English ergative verbs English irregular verbs English verbs with base form identical to past participle ----

    defacement

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of defacing]]; an instance of visibly marring or [[disfigure, disfiguring something.
    • Some consider the defacement of the Sphinx to be the most egregious crime of Napolean's campaigns.
  • An act of voiding or devaluing; nullification of the face value.
    • The soldiers found a variety of creative uses for their payment scrip after its defacement to scrap paper; some used it as toilet paper.
  • (heraldry, vexillology) A symbol added to a flag or coat of arms to change it or make it different from another.

    • Usage notes

    * Defacement generally has negative valence (that is, it is a bad thing), except in heraldry, where it is a neutral term.

    Synonyms

    * (act of defacing ): disfiguration, graffiti, obliteration, vandalism * (nullification of face value ): cancellation, devaluation