hurting
noun
- infliction of damage
- be experiencing pain (intransitive), experiencing pain
- to be afflicted with pain
Wiktionary
adj
- Feeling or causing pain.
noun
- A sensation that hurts.
“Surely, it may be urged, no one else can be the subject of my very hurtings or my very itchings. Other people can hurt or itch in the same way […]”
verb
- present participle and gerund of hurt