hurting

Everyday

1. Hurting means causing pain or injury: You are hurting me! tree →
2. Hurting means feeling pain: My knee is hurting. tree →
3. Hurting can mean upsetting someone's feelings: hurting someone's feelings. tree →

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 →
• Stop it, you are hurting me! tree →
• He did not mean to hurt her feelings. tree →
• Tell the nurse if your arm is still hurting. tree →
• Mean words can be hurting too. tree →
• The dog was hurting, so we took it to the vet. tree →
• Be gentle so you are not hurting the kitten. tree →
• Her feet were hurting after the long walk. tree →

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.