傷つける — meaning in English

English meaning

• hurt verb To cause physical pain or injury.
• spoil verb To ruin something, making it unusable, unpleasant, or less enjoyable.

Senses

傷つける is used for these senses in English:

• hurt (transitive, intransitive) To cause (a person or animal) physical pain and/or injury.
• spoil (transitive) To ruin; to damage in such a way as to make undesirable or unusable. [from 16th c.]
• spoil (transitive) To ruin the character of, by overindulgence; to coddle or pamper to excess. [from 17th c.]

hurt — full definition

1. verb To cause physical pain or injury.
2. verb To cause emotional pain or distress.
3. verb To damage or have a negative effect on something.
4. adj Injured, either physically or emotionally.
5. noun Physical injury or emotional pain.

spoil — full definition

1. verb To ruin something, making it unusable, unpleasant, or less enjoyable.
2. verb To indulge someone, especially a child, so much that it damages their character.
3. verb (of food) To go bad.
4. noun Plunder or loot taken by force, often in the phrase "the spoils of war."

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