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Hurting vs Hunting - What's the difference?

hurting | hunting |

As verbs the difference between hurting and hunting

is that hurting is present participle of lang=en while hunting is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between hurting and hunting

is that hurting is a sensation that hurts while hunting is chasing and killing animals for sport or to get food.

hurting

English

Verb

(wikipedia hurting) (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sensation that hurts.
  • * 1997 , Michael Tye, Ten Problems of Consciousness
    • Surely, it may be urged, no one else can be the subject of my very hurtings or my very itchings. Other people can hurt or itch in the same way

    hunting

    English

    Noun

  • Chasing and killing animals for sport or to get food.
  • * 1797 , Encyclopædia Britannica
    • His pictures of huntings are particularly admired: the figures and animals of every species being designed with uncommon spirit, nature, and truth.
  • Looking for something, especially for a job or flat.
  • (engineering) Fluctuating around a central value without stabilizing.

    • See also

    *

    Verb

    (head)
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=6 citation , passage=Even in an era when individuality in dress is a cult, his clothes were noticeable. He was wearing a hard hat of the low round kind favoured by hunting men, and with it a black duffle-coat lined with white.}}

    Derived terms

    * hunting ground * job-hunting * house-hunting

    See also

    * ("hunting" on Wikipedia)