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# hurting

verb (present participle of hurt: hurt, hurts, hurt, hurting); adjective (hurting, informal)

«hurting» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Hurting means causing pain or injury: You are hurting me! [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurting/#m1)
2. Hurting means feeling pain: My knee is hurting. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurting/#m2)
3. Hurting can mean upsetting someone's feelings: hurting someone's feelings. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurting/#m3)

### In the lessons

In safety and behaviour lessons: tell an adult if something is hurting you, or if someone is hurting you or another child; hurting others, even as a joke, is not OK. In feelings lessons, unkind words can be hurting as well as hits. Phrases: hurting someone's feelings, stop hurting, it is hurting, without hurting.

### Examples

- My tummy is hurting. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurting/#x1)
- Stop it, you are hurting me! [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurting/#x2)
- He did not mean to hurt her feelings. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurting/#x3)
- Tell the nurse if your arm is still hurting. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurting/#x4)
- Mean words can be hurting too. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurting/#x5)
- The dog was hurting, so we took it to the vet. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurting/#x6)
- Be gentle so you are not hurting the kitten. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurting/#x7)
- Her feet were hurting after the long walk. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurting/#x8)

### Note

Hurt has the same form in present, past and past participle (hurt, hurt, hurt): not «hurted». One r in hurting. «It hurts» and «it is hurting» both describe pain.

## In Jewish tradition

In safety and behaviour lessons: tell an adult if something is hurting you, or if someone is hurting you or another child; hurting others, even as a joke, is not OK. In feelings lessons, unkind words can be hurting as well as hits. Phrases: hurting someone's feelings, stop hurting, it is hurting, without hurting.

### Note

Hurt has the same form in present, past and past participle (hurt, hurt, hurt): not «hurted». One r in hurting. «It hurts» and «it is hurting» both describe pain.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «hurting» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurting/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«hurting» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/hurting.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «hurting» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hurting/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«hurting» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/hurting.html) on Mova free.