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Hurt vs Offense - What's the difference?

hurt | offense |

As verbs the difference between hurt and offense

is that hurt is to be painful while offense 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.
  • References

    offense

    Alternative forms

    * (British standard spelling) offence

    Noun

  • (en noun) (US)
  • The act of offending:
  • # a crime or sin
  • #* {{quote-book, year=2006, author=
  • , title=Internal Combustion , chapter=2 citation , passage=The popular late Middle Ages fictional character Robin Hood, dressed in green to symbolize the forest, dodged fines for forest offenses and stole from the rich to give to the poor. But his appeal was painfully real and embodied the struggle over wood.}}
  • # an affront, insult or injury.
  • #* Dryden
  • I have given my opinion against the authority of two great men, but I hope without offence to their memories.
  • The state of being offended or displeased; anger; displeasure.
  • ) A strategy and tactics employed when in position to score; ''contrasted with defense.
  • ) The portion of a team dedicated to scoring when in position to do so; ''contrasted with defense.
  • Synonyms

    * See also

    Antonyms

    * defense (US), defence (Commonwealth)

    Derived terms

    * hanging offense, hanging offence * indictable offense, indictable offence * summary offense, summary offence * regulatory offense, regulatory offence

    See also

    * crime * sin ----