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Synonyms for hurt
Synonyms for hurt: wounded and injure. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for hurt
- woundedadjective, in the sense "suffering from physical injury especially that suffered in battle"
- injureverb, in the sense "cause damage or affect negatively"
All two are filed under hurt's own senses, one synonym per sense, each read by a human before it shipped.
suffering from physical injury especially that suffered in battle
The hurt soldiers were carried away from the battlefield.
The true synonym
wounded
Same sentence, swapped: The wounded soldiers were carried away from the battlefield.
Close but different
The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.
- weakened
- meet
- smart
cause damage or affect negatively
Our business was hurt by the new competition.
The true synonym
injure
Same sentence, swapped: Our business was injure by the new competition.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- smart
- suffer
- eat
Where hurt turns up in the game
hurt is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where hurt is the trap
- meetadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is fitting, in the sense "being precisely fitting and right", and hurt is on the board beside it.
- wrongadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is improper, in the sense "not appropriate for a purpose or occasion", and hurt is on the board beside it.
Play hurt
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so hurt reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other change words at Foothills, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. hurt carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.