Hurt and Short

Hurt

Hurt adjective - Suffering from physical injury especially that suffered in battle.

Short and hurt are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Short" instead an adjective "Hurt".

Nearby Words: hurtful, hurting

Short

Short adjective - Having relatively little height.

Hurt and short are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Hurt" instead an adjective "Short".

Both words in one sentence

  • Rube Goldberg Device The lie detector bites Practical Pig in the ass at the end of the short — when he tells his brothers something to the effect of "This'll hurt me more than it'll hurt you".
  • Natsu musters up her courage and apologizes to Matsuri because of a short conversation they had the day earlier and Natsu feels she hurt Matsuri's feelings.
  • Normally when unit is retreating, it can't be hurt with anything, short of nukes.
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