Hurt and Score

Hurt

Hurt verb - To feel or cause physical pain.

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Score and hurt are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Score" instead the word "Hurt" as a verb or a noun.

Nearby Words: hurtful, hurting

Score verb - To mark with or as if with a line or groove.

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Hurt and score are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Hurt" instead the word "Score" as a verb or a noun.

Nearby Words: scored, scoring, scorer, scoreless

good	good hurt	good score
low	low hurt	low score
better	better hurt	better score
actual	actual hurt	actual score
Other adjectives: massive, bad, absolute, personal, maximum.

With SuperNOVA onwards, Almosts and Boos don't hurt your score NEARLY as much as in Extreme and earlier (they get zero points instead of -4 and -8) although they still take away health.

Source: Video Game / Dance Dance Revolution
However, if you tried this your score would be divided by the number of credits, so this didn't actually let you do better in the game as far as score was concerned, and could even hurt.

Source: Bribing Your Way To Victory / Video Games
Her fashion merchandising major, from a good school, no less, wouldn't hurt and having any sort of extracurricular would be icing on the cake that is a 179 LSAT score.

Source: Film / Legally Blonde

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