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Lacerate vs Hurt - What's the difference?

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Lacerate is a related term of hurt.


As verbs the difference between lacerate and hurt

is that lacerate is to tear, rip or wound while hurt is to be painful.

As adjectives the difference between lacerate and hurt

is that lacerate is (botany) jagged, as if torn or lacerated while hurt is wounded, physically injured.

As a noun hurt is

an emotional or psychological hurt (humiliation or bad experience).

lacerate

English

Verb

(lacerat)
  • To tear, rip or wound.
  • To thoroughly defeat; to thrash
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    Adjective

    (-)
  • (botany) Jagged, as if torn or lacerated.
    • The bract at the base is dry and papery, often lacerate near its apex.
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    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

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