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100 Best Synonyms for “Hurt”

July 18, 2026

100 Best Synonyms for

No. Item Definition
1. abuse to treat cruelly or insult
2. ache to feel a dull pain
3. afflict to cause pain or trouble
4. aggrieve to cause sorrow or pain
5. agitate to disturb emotionally
6. bang up to damage by impact
7. batter to hit repeatedly
8. betray to hurt by disloyalty
9. blight to spoil or damage
10. break to fracture a bone
11. bruise to injure without breaking skin
12. bully to intimidate or mistreat
13. burn to injure with heat
14. clobber to hit very hard
15. contuse to bruise tissue
16. cripple to severely injure or weaken
17. crush to devastate emotionally
18. cut to make a wound
19. damage to cause physical or emotional harm
20. defame to damage reputation falsely
21. devastate to overwhelm with grief
22. discomfort to make uneasy
23. dislocate to force out of place
24. distress to cause suffering or anxiety
25. disturb to upset or trouble
26. do damage to cause harm
27. do in to exhaust or damage badly
28. drain to exhaust emotionally or physically
29. exhaust to wear out completely
30. fracture to crack or break bone
31. graze to scrape the skin lightly
32. grieve to cause deep sorrow
33. hammer to hit hard repeatedly
34. harass to trouble repeatedly
35. harm to cause damage or suffering
36. hit to strike or injure
37. hound to harass relentlessly
38. humiliate to shame painfully
39. impair to damage or weaken
40. injure to cause physical damage
41. insult to offend or wound
42. jab to poke painfully
43. jar to shock or hurt
44. jolt to shake or jar painfully
45. knock to strike against
46. lacerate to tear deeply
47. maim to injure permanently
48. maltreat to treat badly
49. mar to spoil or damage
50. mess up to damage or upset
51. mistreat to treat badly or cruelly
52. mortify to embarrass deeply
53. mutilate to badly damage the body
54. nick to cut slightly
55. offend to wound feelings
56. overstrain to strain too much
57. overwork to strain excessively
58. pain to cause physical suffering
59. painfully affect to impact with suffering
60. pang to cause sudden pain
61. persecute to harass cruelly
62. pierce to go through and wound
63. plague to trouble greatly
64. poke to prod painfully
65. prick to pierce slightly
66. puncture to pierce and wound
67. rankle to cause lingering resentment
68. ravage to cause severe damage
69. rough up to beat and injure
70. rub raw to make painfully sore
71. ruin to destroy or damage greatly
72. scald to burn with hot liquid
73. scrape to rub and injure surface
74. scratch to mark or injure lightly
75. sear to burn the surface
76. slash to cut with force
77. smart to cause a stinging pain
78. sprain to injure a ligament
79. stab to wound with a point
80. sting to cause sharp pain
81. strain to injure by overuse
82. tax to strain heavily
83. tear to rip or wound tissue
84. thrash to beat severely
85. thump to hit with force
86. torment to cause severe suffering
87. torture to cause extreme pain
88. traumatize to cause deep distress
89. trouble to cause distress
90. undo to damage severely
91. upset to cause emotional pain
92. vex to annoy or distress
93. wallop to hit very hard
94. weaken to make less strong
95. wear down to weaken through strain
96. whack to hit hard
97. wound to cause bodily injury
98. wreck to badly damage
99. wrench to twist and injure
100. wrong to treat unjustly
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