Hurt
Hurt verb - To feel or cause physical pain.
Keep up
Keep up verb - To keep in good condition.
Usage example: kept the house up while the owners were gone
Both terms in one sentence
- He's enough of a Badass Normal to keep up with them all when Slade blackmails him into being his apprentice, but one has to wonder how hard they were trying to hurt him.
Source: Fixed Relative Strength -
Let us count the ways: They are very accurate with their arrows, those arrows hurt, and they can keep up quite the rate of fire.
Source: Demonic Spiders / Platformers -
He is specifically targeted for being the only one who could keep up, and is hurt to a point of being seriously injured from the match with Genesis, and consequently gets Put On An Ambulance.
Source: Video Game / Inazuma Eleven
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