{
    "term": "hurt",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "hurt",
            "heSheIt": "hurts"
        },
        "pastSimple": "hurt",
        "pastParticiple": "hurt",
        "ingForm": "hurting"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to cause physical pain to somebody/yourself; to injure somebody/yourself",
            "sensetop": "hurt somethinghurt yourselfhurt (somebody)",
            "labels": "(especially British English)(informal)(formal)(especially North American English)(British English)(especially British English)(North American English)(formal)(British English)(North American English)",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He hurt his back playing squash.",
                    "contextForm": "hurt something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Strong light hurts my eyes."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Did you hurt yourself?",
                    "contextForm": "hurt yourself"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Stop it. You're hurting me.",
                    "contextForm": "hurt (somebody)"
                },
                {
                    "text": "No one was **seriously hurt** in the accident."
                },
                {
                    "text": "My back is really hurting me today."
                },
                {
                    "text": "My shoes hurt—they're too tight."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I was shaken, but not actually hurt."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She fell and hurt her leg quite badly."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Health problems"],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["badly", "seriously", "actually"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to feel painful",
            "sensetop": "it hurts when/if…it hurts to do something",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "My feet hurt."
                },
                {
                    "text": "My head hurts."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Ouch! That hurt!"
                },
                {
                    "text": "It hurts when I bend my knee.",
                    "contextForm": "it hurts when/if…"
                },
                {
                    "text": "It hurts if I move my neck."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It hurts to breathe.",
                    "contextForm": "it hurts to do something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "My ankle still hurts quite badly."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Ouch! It really hurts."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I knew it was going to hurt—but not that much!"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Does it hurt a lot?"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Health problems"],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["badly", "a lot", "really"],
                "verb + hurt": ["be going to", "begin to"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "to make somebody unhappy or upset",
            "sensetop": "hurt somebody/somethingit hurts to do somethingit hurts somebody to do something",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "What **really hurt** was that he never answered my calls."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to hurt you.",
                    "contextForm": "hurt somebody/something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I didn't want to **hurt his feelings**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It always hurts to lose, especially in the final.",
                    "contextForm": "it hurts to do something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "It hurt me to think that he would lie to me.",
                    "contextForm": "it hurts somebody to do something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "They never told me why and that really hurt."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Are you deliberately trying to hurt me?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Her remarks hurt him deeply."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I never meant to hurt anyone."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Why would I want to hurt her?"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["badly", "deeply", "really"],
                "verb + hurt": ["attempt to", "try to", "want to"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "to feel unhappy or upset",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I know you're hurting and I want to help you."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Feelings"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "to have a bad effect on somebody/something",
            "sensetop": "hurt somebody/something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Hard work never hurt anyone."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Many people on low incomes will be hurt by the government's plans."
                },
                {
                    "text": "High interest rates are hurting the local economy."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 6,
            "definition": "to be in a difficult situation because you need something, especially money",
            "labels": "(North American English)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "His campaign is already hurting for money."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to affect somebody where they will feel it most",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used to say that somebody should do a particular thing",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "It wouldn't hurt you to help with the housework occasionally."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to be kind and gentle and unwilling to cause unhappiness",
            "examples": []
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/hɜːt/",
                "audio": "hu/hurt/hurt__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/hɜːts/",
                "audio": "hu/hurt/hurts__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈhɜːtɪŋ/",
                "audio": "hu/hurt/hurting__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/hɜːrt/",
                "audio": "hu/hurt/hurt__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/hɜːrts/",
                "audio": "hu/hurt/hurts__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈhɜːrtɪŋ/",
                "audio": "hu/hurt/hurting__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English (originally in the senses ‘ to strike’ and ‘a blow’): from Old French hurter (verb), hurt (noun), perhaps ultimately of Germanic origin."
}