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Hurt vs Resent - What's the difference?

hurt | resent |

As verbs the difference between hurt and resent

is that hurt is to be painful while resent is to express or exhibit displeasure or indignation at (words or acts) or resent can be (resend).

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 ----

    resent

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) resentir (Modern ressentir), from

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To express or exhibit displeasure or indignation at (words or acts).
  • * Bolingbroke
    • The good prince King James bore dishonourably what he might have resented safely.
  • To feel resentment.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
    • , chapter=2 citation , passage=Mother very rightly resented the slightest hint of condescension. She considered that the exclusiveness of Peter's circle was due not to its distinction, but to the fact that it was an inner Babylon of prodigality and whoredom,
  • (obsolete) To be sensible of; to feel.
  • (obsolete) In a positive sense, to take well; to receive with satisfaction.
  • * Sir (Thomas Browne) (1605-1682)
    • which makes the tragical ends of noble persons more favorably resented by compassionate readers.
  • (obsolete) In a negative sense, to take ill; to consider as an injury or affront; to be indignant at.
  • (obsolete) To recognize; to perceive, especially as if by smelling; -- associated in meaning with sent, the older spelling of scent to smell. See resent (intransitive verb).
  • * Fuller
    • This bird of prey resented a worse than earthly savour in the soul of Saul.
  • * Fuller
    • Our King Henry the Seventh quickly resented his drift.
  • (obsolete) To give forth an odor; to smell; to savor.

    • Etymology 2

    See resend.

    Verb

    (head)
  • (resend)
    • The package was resent , this time with the correct postage.

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    Anagrams

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