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Hurting vs Nagging - What's the difference?

hurting | nagging |

As verbs the difference between hurting and nagging

is that hurting is while nagging is .

As nouns the difference between hurting and nagging

is that hurting is a sensation that hurts while nagging is the action of the verb nag .

As an adjective nagging is

causing persistent mild pain, or annoyance.

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

    nagging

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The action of the verb nag .
  • * 1998 , Norah Lillian Lewis, Dear editor and friends (page 127)
  • After breakfast it takes a stout heart and strong nerve to tackle the burden of dishwashing, separator, milk things, disorderly house, interspersed with quarrels, naggings , and interruptions of the children

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Causing persistent mild pain, or annoyance.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
  • , author=Michael Riordan , title=Tackling Infinity , volume=100, issue=1, page=86 , magazine= citation , passage=Some of the most beautiful and thus appealing physical theories, including quantum electrodynamics and quantum gravity, have been dogged for decades by infinities that erupt when theorists try to prod their calculations into new domains. Getting rid of these nagging infinities has probably occupied far more effort than was spent in originating the theories.}}

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