The difference between Hurt and Sore
When used as nouns, hurt means an emotional or psychological humiliation or bad experience, whereas sore means an injured, infected, inflamed or diseased patch of skin.
When used as verbs, hurt means to be painful, whereas sore means to mutilate the legs or feet of (a horse) in order to induce a particular gait.
When used as adjectives, hurt means wounded, physically injured, whereas sore means causing pain or discomfort.
Sore is also adverb with the meaning: very, excessively, extremely (of something bad).
check bellow for the other definitions of Hurt and Sore
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Hurt as a verb (intransitive):
To be painful.
Examples:
"Does your leg still hurt? / It is starting to feel better."
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Hurt as a verb (transitive):
To cause (a creature) physical pain and/or injury.
Examples:
"If anybody hurts my little brother I will get upset."
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Hurt as a verb (transitive):
To cause (somebody) emotional pain.
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Hurt as a verb (transitive):
To undermine, impede, or damage.
Examples:
"This latest gaffe hurts the legislator’s reelection prospects still further."
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Hurt as an adjective:
Wounded, physically injured.
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Hurt as an adjective:
Pained.
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Hurt as a noun:
An emotional or psychological humiliation or bad experience.
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Hurt as a noun (archaic):
A bodily injury causing pain; a wound or bruise.
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Hurt as a noun (archaic):
injury; damage; detriment; harm
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Hurt as a noun (heraldiccharge):
A roundel azure (blue circular spot).
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Hurt as a noun (engineering):
A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.
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Hurt as a noun:
A husk.
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Sore as an adjective:
Causing pain or discomfort; painfully sensitive.
Examples:
"Her feet were sore from walking so far."
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Sore as an adjective:
Sensitive; tender; easily pained, grieved, or vexed; very susceptible of irritation.
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Sore as an adjective:
Dire; distressing.
Examples:
"The school was in sore need of textbooks, theirs having been ruined in the flood."
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Sore as an adjective (informal):
Feeling animosity towards someone; annoyed or angered.
Examples:
"Joe was sore at Bob for beating him at checkers."
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Sore as an adjective (obsolete):
Criminal; wrong; evil.
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Sore as an adverb (archaic):
Very, excessively, extremely (of something bad).
Examples:
"They were sore afraid.  The knight was sore wounded."
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Sore as an adverb:
Sorely.
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Sore as a noun:
An injured, infected, inflamed or diseased patch of skin.
Examples:
"They put ointment and a bandage on the sore."
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Sore as a noun:
Grief; affliction; trouble; difficulty.
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Sore as a verb (transitive):
To mutilate the legs or feet of (a horse) in order to induce a particular gait.
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Sore as a noun:
A group of ducks on land.
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Sore as a noun:
A young hawk or falcon in its first year.
Examples:
"rfquotek Edmund Spenser"
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Sore as a noun:
A young buck in its fourth year.
Examples:
"rfquotek Shakespeare"