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hurting

1. informal Experiencing financial distress or difficulty. A lot of shops around here have really been hurting because of the new tax law. Well, yeah, we've been hurting for money ever since Henry got laid off. I wonder why the places down here always seem to be hurtin'. Is it the lack of foot traffic?
2. colloquial Unappealing; in poor condition. This place is really hurting—you're going to have to do a ton of repairs and renovations. After dropping my phone so many times, the screen is really hurting. Well, this car may be hurtin' now, but it's been reliable for me since the day I bought it 20 years ago.
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hurt

1. mod. very ugly; damaged and ugly. (Streets. Similar to hurting.) That poor girl is really bad hurt.
2. mod. drug intoxicated. (Streets.) Gert was really hurt and nodding and drooling.
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Kindly callers hurt her, too, with the well-meant platitudes with which they strove to cover the nakedness of bereavement.
"But when I haven't it just seems like wanton cruelty--though I know Phil wouldn't hurt me for the world.
Both parties to this fourth duel were badly hurt so much that the surgeon was at work upon them nearly or quite an hour--a fact which is suggestive.
People laugh at it mainly because they think the student is so covered up with armor that he cannot be hurt. But it is not so; his eyes are ears are protected, but the rest of his face and head are bare.
But you know she was hurt about Antonia, and she can't understand why you like to be with Tiny and Lena better than with the girls of your own set.'
Only love can erase the memory of love, or rather, the hurt of lost love.
"Hurt? Oh, yes; I--I ran." Pollyanna's eyes were dazed.
"When I go after anything I get it, an' if anything gets in between it gets hurt. D'ye get that?
An' you'd better tell the rummy to beat it unless you want to see'm get his face hurt."
The only ones that will be hurt will be the topers and seasoned drinkers of a single generation.
"Why, I've brought you to life," answered the boy "but it won't hurt you any, if you mind me and do as I tell you."
"Not exactly hurt," answered the animal; "but it makes me quite nervous to be jarred."
Nobody must get hurt. Everybody that stood by me must come through without damage.
It came all of a sudden when it did, with a rush of feet and a roar, and then a shout from Alan, and a sound of blows and some one crying out as if hurt. I looked back over my shoulder, and saw Mr.
"But, best of all," said Dorothy, "the wicked people have all forgotten their wickedness, and will not wish to hurt any one after this."