Lear acted badly hurt (9)
I believe the answer is:
lacerated
'hurt' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'lear acted badly' is the wordplay.
'badly' indicates anagramming the letters.
'lear'+'acted'='learacted'
'learacted' anagrammed gives 'LACERATED'.
(Other definitions for lacerated that I've seen before include "badly torn" , "torn apart?" , "Distressed" , "Cut deeply" .)