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Hurt vs Inflame - What's the difference?

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Hurt is a related term of inflame.


As verbs the difference between hurt and inflame

is that hurt is to be painful while inflame is .

As an adjective hurt

is wounded, physically injured.

As a noun hurt

is an emotional or psychological hurt (humiliation or bad experience).

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 ----

    inflame

    English

    Verb

    (inflam)
  • To set on fire; to kindle; to cause to burn, flame, or glow.
  • * Chapman
    • We should have made retreat / By light of the inflamed fleet.
  • (figuratively) To kindle or intensify, as passion or appetite; to excite to an excessive or unnatural action or heat.
    • to inflame desire
  • * Milton
    • more, it seems, inflamed with lust than rage
  • * Dryden
    • But, O inflame and fire our hearts.
  • To provoke to anger or rage; to exasperate; to irritate; to incense; to enrage.
  • * Shakespeare
    • It will inflame you; it will make you mad.
  • *, chapter=12
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=To Edward
  • To put in a state of inflammation; to produce morbid heat, congestion, or swelling, of.
    • to inflame the eyes by overwork
  • To exaggerate; to enlarge upon.
  • * Addison
    • A friend exaggerates a man's virtues, an enemy inflames his crimes.
  • *1773 , (Oliver Goldsmith),
  • *:As you say, we passengers are to be taxed to pay all these fineries. I have often seen a good sideboard, or a marble chimney-piece, though not actually put in the bill, inflame a reckoning confoundedly.
  • To grow morbidly hot, congested, or painful; to become angry or incensed.

    • Synonyms

    * provoke * fire * kindle * irritate * exasperate * incense * enrage * anger * excite * arouse

    Related terms

    * inflammable * inflammatory * inflammation

    External links

    * * English ergative verbs ----