Hypernyms for "hurt"
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abase
act up
affront
agonise
agonize
agony
ail
anguish
birth trauma
bite
blast trauma
bleeding
blunt trauma
brain damage
break
break someone''s heart
bruise
bump
burn
catch
chagrin
choke
contusion
cryopathy
defacement
defloration
disagree with
discomfort
disfiguration
disfigurement
dislocation
diss
electric shock
excruciate
expense
famish
fracture
frostbite
gag
get
haemorrhage
have
hemorrhage
humble
humiliate
hunger
impairment
injure
insect bite
insult
intravasation
irritation
itch
kill
lacerate
lesion
mortify
pain
penetrating injury
penetrating trauma
pinch
prick
pull
rack
rupture
self-torment
self-torture
shoot
soreness
starve
sting
strain
strangle
suffocate
thirst
throb
throes
torment
torture
trouble
try
tsoris
twinge
twist
wale
weal
welt
wheal
whiplash
whiplash injury
wound
wounding
wrench
What are hypernyms?
Hypernyms are words with a broader meaning that includes the meaning of the original word. For example, "animal" is a hypernym of "dog" because a dog is a type of animal.
Think of hypernyms as "umbrella terms" or categories that include the original word.