Sore vs. Hurt — What's the Difference?

Painful to the touch; tender.

Cause pain or injury to

Feeling physical pain; hurting

Be detrimental to

Causing misery, sorrow, or distress; grievous

Have a pressing need for

Causing embarrassment or irritation

Physically injured

Full of distress; sorrowful.

Physical injury; harm

(Informal) Angry; offended.

To cause physical damage or pain to (an individual or a body part); injure

An open skin lesion, wound, or ulcer.

To experience injury or pain to or in (an individual or a body part)

A source of pain, distress, or irritation.

To cause mental or emotional suffering to; distress

To mutilate the legs or feet of (a horse) in order to induce a particular gait in the animal.

To cause physical damage to (something); harm

Sorely.

To be detrimental to; hinder or impair

Causing pain or discomfort; painfully sensitive.

To have or produce a feeling of physical pain or discomfort

Sensitive; tender; easily pained, grieved, or vexed; very susceptible of irritation.

To cause distress or damage

Dire; distressing.

To have an adverse effect

(informal) Feeling animosity towards someone; annoyed or angered.

(Informal) To experience distress, especially of a financial kind; be in need

(obsolete) Criminal; wrong; evil.

Something that hurts; a pain, injury, or wound.

(archaic) Very, excessively, extremely (of something bad).

Mental suffering; anguish

Sorely.

A wrong; harm

An injured, infected, inflamed or diseased patch of skin.

To cause (a person or animal) physical pain and/or injury.

Grief; affliction; trouble; difficulty.

To cause (somebody) emotional pain.

A young hawk or falcon in its first year.

To be painful.

A young buck in its fourth year.

To damage, harm, impair, undermine, impede.

(transitive) To mutilate the legs or feet of (a horse) in order to induce a particular gait.

Wounded, physically injured.

Reddish brown; sorrel.

Pained.

Tender to the touch; susceptible of pain from pressure; inflamed; painful; - said of the body or its parts; as, a sore hand.

An emotional or psychological humiliation or bad experience.

Fig.: Sensitive; tender; easily pained, grieved, or vexed; very susceptible of irritation.

(archaic) A bodily injury causing pain; a wound or bruise.

Severe; afflictive; distressing; as, a sore disease; sore evil or calamity.

(archaic) Injury; damage; detriment; harm

Criminal; wrong; evil.

(engineering) A band on a trip hammer's helve, bearing the trunnions.

A young hawk or falcon in the first year.

A husk.

A young buck in the fourth year. See the Note under Buck.

(heraldry) A roundel azure (blue circular spot).

A place in an animal body where the skin and flesh are ruptured or bruised, so as to be tender or painful; a painful or diseased place, such as an ulcer or a boil.

A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.

Fig.: Grief; affliction; trouble; difficulty.

To cause physical pain to; to do bodily harm to; to wound or bruise painfully.

In a sore manner; with pain; grievously.

To impar the value, usefulness, beauty, or pleasure of; to damage; to injure; to harm.

Greatly; violently; deeply.

To wound the feelings of; to cause mental pain to; to offend in honor or self-respect; to annoy; to grieve.

An open skin infection

Any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.

Hurting;

Psychological suffering;

Causing misery or pain or distress;

Feelings of mental or physical pain

Roused to anger;

A damage or loss

Inflamed and painful;

The act of damaging something or someone

Be the source of pain

Give trouble or pain to;

Cause emotional anguish or make miserable;

Cause damage or affect negatively;

Hurt the feelings of;

Feel physical pain;

Feel pain or be in pain

Suffering from physical injury especially that suffered in battle;

Used of inanimate objects or their value