Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- transitive v. To throw with great force; fling. See Synonyms at throw.
- transitive v. To send with great vigor; thrust: hurled the army against the enemy.
- transitive v. To throw down; overthrow.
- transitive v. To utter vehemently: hurled insults at the speaker.
- transitive v. Slang To vomit (the contents of the stomach).
- intransitive v. To move with great speed, force, or violence; hurtle.
- intransitive v. To throw something with force.
- intransitive v. Slang To vomit.
- intransitive v. Baseball To pitch the ball.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- v. To throw (something) with force.
- v. To utter (harsh or derogatory speech), especially at its target.
- v. To participate in the sport of hurling.
- v. (slang) To vomit.
- n. A throw, especially a violent throw; a fling.
- n. The act of vomiting.
- n. The act of hitting the sliotar with the hurley.
- n. (car) ride
- n. tumult; riot; hurly-burly
- n. A table on which fibre is stirred and mixed by beating with a bow spring.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. The act of hurling or throwing with violence; a cast; a fling.
- n. Tumult; riot; hurly-burly.
- n. A table on which fiber is stirred and mixed by beating with a bowspring.
- intransitive v. To hurl one's self; to go quickly.
- intransitive v. To perform the act of hurling something; to throw something (at another).
- intransitive v. To play the game of hurling. See Hurling.
- transitive v. To send whirling or whizzing through the air; to throw with violence; to drive with great force.
- transitive v. To emit or utter with vehemence or impetuosity.
- transitive v. To twist or turn.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To throw; fling; toss: without the idea of violent or impetuous motion.
- To throw with violence; send whirling or whizzing through the air; fling with great force.
- To drag with violence.
- Figuratively, to emit or utter with vehemence.
- To throw; fling; discharge a missile.
- To rush.
- To fall or strike with violence.
- To play at the game of hurling.
- To whirl; turn round rapidly.
- To turn; twist.
- To wheel; convey by means of a wheeled vehicle.
- To whirl; turn rapidly; rush or dash.
- To be wheeled or conveyed in a wheeled vehicle.
- n. The act of throwing with violence.
- n. Tumult; riot; commotion.
- n. A scolding.
- n. A whirlpool; whirling water.
- n. Conveyance in a wheeled vehicle; a drive.
- n. A hurdle.
- n. Same as harl, 3.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- v. utter with force; utter vehemently
- v. throw forcefully
- v. make a thrusting forward movement
- n. a violent throw
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
Examples
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Here's a quick culinary quiz for anyone who spent their college years racking up enough student loan debt to re-decorate a corporate CEO's office bathroom while being forced to subsist on food so vile it would make Upton Sinclair hurl from the grave.
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Each player carries a hurl, which is a wooden paddle that is curved on the end with them.
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Here they perform amazing feats of strength and agility; the game principally consists in taking and carrying off the ball from the opposite party, after being hurled into the air, midway between two high pillars, which are the goals, and the party who bears off the ball to their pillar wins the game; each person having a racquet or hurl, which is an implement of a very curious construction, somewhat resembling a ladle or little hoop-net, with a handle near three feet in
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My lake back in TX (Lake Travis) is down about 41 'right now, all boat ramps are closed, you'd have to "hurl" the boat to get it to the water from the ramps.
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I been at alot of boat ramps here NOB, and believe me, "hurl" just may be the correct word. very funny! stevebrtx
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In other words, "change the ads, so they don't say 'hurl' and 'blow chunks' anymore."
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(The 'hurl' is the finest part of the corn, the heart.)
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Feck some begrudgers are never satisfied It makes me want to 'hurl'.
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Bartram also says that each person has "a racquet or hurl, which is an implement of
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"hurl;" that another, with some faint resemblance left of a fat grinning human face, leaned considerably out of the perpendicular, and was, in all probability, a hurler of intemperate habits.
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