Word Finder - hurting

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To be painful.

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Does your leg still hurt? / It is starting to feel better.

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To cause (a creature) physical pain and/or injury.

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If anybody hurts my little brother, I will get upset.

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To cause (somebody) emotional pain.

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To undermine, impede, or damage.

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This latest gaffe hurts the legislator’s reelection prospects still further.

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A sensation that hurts.

You're hurting pretty bad, aren't you?

You're hurting my shoulder.

Maybe he thinks I was in pain; that you were hurting me!

Tell him how sorry I am, and tell him you weren't hurting me.

While he possessed sufficient strength to pull away, he was fearful of hurting her, and even more so, of her crying out.

Whatever had happened, the man before her was hurting still, like she did when her father hit her.

Sofia rubbed her temples but didn't move, grateful he wasn't hurting her head for once.

She hadn't been able to break up with a boyfriend she was sick of for fear of hurting his feelings.

The thought of hurting him made the hand she pressed to his heart tremble.

No more hunting, tracking, targeting, hurting, killing, or anything else.

And what about her hurting me?

She glanced at his hand, but if it was hurting, he didn't seem to notice.

She wasn't about to live with the guilt of hurting yet a third person she cared about.

Teacher's eyes have been hurting her so that she could not write to any one, and I have been trying to fulfil a promise which I made last summer.

He had probably been hurting during the ride, but refused to say anything.

He was limping and hurting, but not in bad enough shape to keep him hospitalized.

He was hurting, that much she could sense even without her magic.

He believes he's hurting our marriage, threatened to move back to California and tank the whole business.

She was hurting, even if he didn't know why.

Of all the things she'd done, she'd never be able to forgive herself for hurting him.

The regret in his dark eyes made her want to beg him not to kill her and comfort him for the pain he'd surely feel hurting his own friend.

Whatever the men were squabbling about, it wasn't worth hurting her.

But it turns my stomach to think of a man hurting a woman like that.

Don't get me wrong, I know she's hurting, but my main concern is my boy.

Princess — she's hurting something terrible.

True to his word, he was aggressive without hurting her.

You have to stop hurting them.

But no, I take no satisfaction out of seeing someone hurting.

While feeling vindicated that Kris might already be dead, he couldn.t help the growing guilt at hurting so many other Immortals.

Kiera looked at her friend, guilty for hurting her feelings despite her need to return to her own world.

He would never tell her, but be damned if that son-of-a-bitch would get away with hurting and using her that way.

It was imperative to maintain enough control to keep from hurting or biting her.

So… I don't need to worry about hurting you, do I?

I don't want to risk hurting you.

She seems to be hurting.

No doubt Katie was going to say something about short people and thought better of it for fear of hurting feelings.

You're not the only one hurting, Rhyn.

She couldn't help hurting for him, all too sensitive to the scars left by her own past.

Jenn forced herself to move, hurting more from the wound inside than all those outside.

Aaron isn't loaded, but he isn't hurting, either.

Alex was hurting, and even though she wasn't the cause, there was nothing she could do to help.

My shoulder is hurting and I'd like to put the sling on for a while.

How could she answer that without hurting his feelings?

I didn't realize I was hurting you.

I'm alive, that is not my fault, so I must live out my life as best I can without hurting others.

In her behavior to her mother Natasha seemed rough, but she was so sensitive and tactful that however she clasped her mother she always managed to do it without hurting her or making her feel uncomfortable or displeased.

You might be hurting it more than helping it by rubbing so much.

We fit together first rate but he was hurting badly.

Martha was hurting that night, and she turned to me, albeit in an uncommon way.

Deidre frowned, disturbed by the idea of some psycho hurting the girl.