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hurl

[hurl]
verb (used with object)
1.
to throw or fling with great force or vigor.
2.
to throw or cast down.
3.
to utter with vehemence: to hurl insults at the umpire.
verb (used without object)
4.
to throw a missile.
5.
Baseball. to pitch a ball.

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an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
noun
6.
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)

hurl·er, noun
out·hurl, verb (used with object)
un·hurled, adjective

hurdle, hurl, hurtle.


1. cast, pitch.

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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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hurtle.
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hurl definition


  1. in.
    to empty one's stomach; to vomit. (Like the throw in throw up. See also earl.) : I think I gotta go hurl.
  2. n.
    vomit. : There's hurl all over the bathroom floor!
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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