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hurl

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verb (used with object)

to throw or fling with great force or vigor.

to throw or cast down.

to utter with vehemence: to hurl insults at the umpire.

verb (used without object)

to throw a missile.

Baseball. to pitch a ball.

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noun

a forcible or violent throw; fling.

Origin:
1175–1225; Middle English hurlen, equivalent to hur- (perhaps akin to hurry) + -len -le; akin to Low German hurreln to toss, Frisian hurreln to roar (said of the wind), dialectal German hurlen to roll, rumble (said of thunder)

Related forms

hurl·er, noun

out·hurl, verb (used with object)

un·hurled, adjective

Can be confused: hurdle, hurl, hurtle.

Synonyms
1. cast, pitch.

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To test the laws of physics, they will hurl themselves against walls, roll on the floor and dive from scaffolds.

Your smoker's cough is so bad it makes me want to hurl.

Governments hurl money at it when trying to fix failing economies.

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To test the laws of physics, they will hurl themselves against walls, roll on the floor and dive from scaffolds.

Your smoker's cough is so bad it makes me want to hurl.

Governments hurl money at it when trying to fix failing economies.

I've found female inmates are much more likely than men to hurl an insult or taunt our film crew.

The tears of another hypocrite make me want to hurl.

The kids can place mounted guns, collect coins and hurl snowballs at the incoming enemies.

Then they take a good running start and hurl themselves square into it, sending fence slats flying.

It is not certain he believes in the need to separate powers, letting his fans hurl abuse at judges when they ruled against him.

Sixty-eight fountains of fire hurl smoke into the black canopy overhead.

It seems you fall substantially short of supporting that untenable position as you instead opted to hurl insults and barbs.

When a visitor appears, the rats hurl themselves screaming toward their bars.

The accusations that fill its pages are the kind scholars regularly hurl at their polemical opponents.

Both sides represent political factions and sectarian groups that are often justified in the accusations they hurl at each other.

Soon he will plod up the ridge, turn, and again hurl himself diagonally down the slope.

Residents believe some device is being used to hurl the missiles.

The invective some members of the group hurl at one another is sometimes as fierce as the insults they throw at wealthier nations.

It would seem all you can do is hurl schoolyard epithets.

Everyone knows they're designed to carry nukes, and to hurl them long distances.

The drives that stir us out of bed at dawn and hurl us headlong into our daily struggles have two sides.

Hurl a cloud of tiny un-oxidized metal particles into the air.

In the first few levels, you hurl balls at a pile of blocks.

Angry youths across the region gathered to hurl rocks and chant.

Yosemite's superclimbers hurl above the ground on a rope swing.

They gobble up road kill and can hurl the ingested remains at a potential attacker, leaving a horrible odor.

Taut bodies ooze and slither and hurl across the stage in dance that is at once highly controlled and full of gutsy attack.

These miles-long devices hurl charged subatomic particles such as.

Dolphins are known to hurl themselves up onto beach rocks in a suicidal frenzy to escape the mammal-hunting orcas.

Faces, breasts, shoulders and arms seem to detach themselves from bodies and hurl themselves at us from every conceivable angle.

The basic idea is to hurl an object by using a change in gravitational potential energy.

Witnesses gave conflicting accounts, but some said they saw a man hurl a bomb from a rooftop.

Summers hurl a22-caliber revolver out of his vehicle.

As women and children run screaming into the jungle, tribesmen hurl rocks and sticks at the.

Walls usually rip before a mind can factor it, roofs fall, babies hurl through air.

Olive may hurl invectives at her son, but she also loves him, almost more than she can bear.

Small groups of young men gathered on the sidewalks and in parks, some with stones at hand, apparently ready to hurl.

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World English Dictionary

hurl (hɜːl)

—vb
1.	(tr) to throw or propel with great force
2.	(tr) to utter with force; yell: to hurl insults
3.	(Scot) to transport or be transported in a driven vehicle

—n
4.	the act or an instance of hurling
5.	(Scot) a ride in a driven vehicle

[C13: probably of imitative origin]

'hurler

—n

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Word Origin & History

hurl

early 13c., hurlen, probably related to Low Ger. hurreln "to throw, to dash," and E.Fris. hurreln "to roar, to bluster." OED suggests all are from onomatopoeic *hurr "expressing rapid motion;" see also hurry. For difference between hurl and hurtle (which apparently were confused since early M.E.) see

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Slang Dictionary

hurl definition

in.
to empty one's stomach; to vomit. (Like the throw in throw up. See also earl.) : I think I gotta go hurl.
n.
vomit. : There's hurl all over the bathroom floor!

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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