Hurt vs Hug - What's the difference?
hurt | hug |
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.
(obsolete) To crouch; huddle as with cold.
To cling closely together.
To embrace by holding closely, especially in the arms.
To stay close to (the shore etc.)
* , chapter=8
, title= (figurative) To hold fast; to cling to; to cherish.
* Glanvill
As nouns the difference between hurt and hug
is that hurt is an emotional or psychological hurt (humiliation or bad experience) while hug is younger sister.As a verb hurt
is to be painful.As an adjective hurt
is wounded, physically injured.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 .
References
hug
English
(wikipedia hug)Verb
(hugg)- (Palsgrave)
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- We hug deformities if they bear our names.