Pestilence vs Hurt - What's the difference?
pestilence | hurt | Related terms |
Any epidemic disease that is highly contagious, infectious, virulent and devastating.
* 1949 - Bruce Kiskaddon, George R. Stewart,
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.
As nouns the difference between pestilence and hurt
is that pestilence is any epidemic disease that is highly contagious, infectious, virulent and devastating while hurt is an emotional or psychological hurt (humiliation or bad experience.As a proper noun Pestilence
is the personification of pestilence, often depicted riding a white horse.As a verb hurt is
to be painful.As an adjective hurt is
wounded, physically injured.pestilence
English
Noun
(en noun)- The snowshoe-rabbits build up through the years until they reach a climax when they seem to be everywhere; then with dramatic suddenness their pestilence falls upon them.
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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 .
