Transgress vs Hurt - What's the difference?
transgress | hurt |
To exceed or overstep some limit or boundary.
* Dryden
To act in violation of some law.
* Milton
To commit an offense; to sin.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
(of the sea) To spread over land along a shoreline; to inundate.
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.
In lang=en terms the difference between transgress and hurt
is that transgress is to act in violation of some law while hurt is to undermine, impede, or damage.As verbs the difference between transgress and hurt
is that transgress is to exceed or overstep some limit or boundary while hurt is to be painful.As an adjective hurt is
wounded, physically injured.As a noun hurt is
an emotional or psychological hurt (humiliation or bad experience).transgress
English
Verb
(es)- surpassing common faith, transgressing nature's law
- For man will hearken to his glozing lies, / And easily transgress the sole command.
- Why give you peace to this imperate beast / That hath so long transgressed you?
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 .