Hurt vs Scar - What's the difference?
hurt | scar | Synonyms |
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.
To mark the skin permanently.
* Shakespeare
To form a scar.
(figurative) To affect deeply in a traumatic manner.
Hurt is a synonym of scar.
In lang=en terms the difference between hurt and scar
is that hurt is to undermine, impede, or damage while scar is to form a scar.As verbs the difference between hurt and scar
is that hurt is to be painful while scar is to mark the skin permanently.As nouns the difference between hurt and scar
is that hurt is an emotional or psychological hurt (humiliation or bad experience) while scar is a permanent mark on the skin sometimes caused by the healing of a wound or scar can be a cliff or scar can be a marine food fish, the scarus or parrotfish.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
scar
English
(wikipedia scar)Etymology 1
Conflation of (etyl) . More at shard.Synonyms
* cicatriceVerb
(scarr)- Yet I'll not shed her blood; / Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow.
- Seeing his parents die in a car crash scarred him for life.