Hurt and Release

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Hurt verb - To feel or cause physical pain.

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Release is an antonym for hurt in experience pain topic.

Nearby Words: hurtful, hurting

Release verb - To set free (from a state of being held in check).

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Hurt is an antonym for release.

Nearby Words: released, releasing

sweet	sweet hurt	sweet release
regular	regular hurt	regular release
future	future hurt	future release
initial	initial hurt	initial release
Other adjectives: actual, massive, major.

people	hurt people	release people
time	hurt time	release time
game	hurt game	release game
everyone	hurt everyone	release everyone
Other words: enemies, animals, demons, monsters.

Sometime after the release of Everblack, Trevor Strnad posted a lengthy diatribe on the band's Facebook page about how downloading only hurt them.

Source: Digital Piracy Is Evil
He also lampshaded this on the "Three Faces of Foley" VHS release when he said that he particularly liked his hippy-dippy Dude Love character because he didn't get hurt so much.

Source: Wrestling / Mick Foley
There was originally no US release, in part because Nintendo thought that the sheer difficulty would hurt sales.

Source: Nintendo Hard / Platform Games

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