hurt vs insult

hurt

noun
  • An emotional or psychological humiliation or bad experience. 

  • A roundel azure (blue circular spot). 

  • A band on a trip hammer's helve, bearing the trunnions. 

  • A husk. 

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

  • To be painful. 

  • To cause (somebody) emotional pain. 

  • To damage, harm, impair, undermine, impede. 

adj
  • Wounded, physically injured. 

  • Pained. 

insult

noun
  • Something that causes offence (for example, by being of an unacceptable quality). 

  • Something causing disease or injury to the body or bodily processes; the injury so caused. 

  • Action or form of speech deliberately intended to be rude; (countable) a particular act or statement having this effect. 

verb
  • To be insensitive, insolent, or rude to (somebody); to affront or demean (someone). 

How often have the words hurt and insult occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )