Hurl
[hɜːl] or [hɝl]
Definition
(noun.) a violent throw.
(verb.) utter with force; utter vehemently; 'hurl insults'; 'throw accusations at someone'.
(verb.) throw forcefully.
Typist: Marcus--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To send whirling or whizzing through the air; to throw with violence; to drive with great force; as, to hurl a stone or lance.
(v. t.) To emit or utter with vehemence or impetuosity; as, to hurl charges or invective.
(v. t.) To twist or turn.
(v. i.) To hurl one's self; to go quickly.
(v. i.) To perform the act of hurling something; to throw something (at another).
(v. i.) To play the game of hurling. See Hurling.
(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.
Inputed by Fidel
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Throw, fling, cast, pitch, send, toss, sling, chuck, flirt, shy.
n. [1]. Throw, cast, fling, toss.[2]. Tumult, commotion, turmoil, confusion, bustle, disturbance, HURLY-BURLY.
Checker: Sumner
Definition
v.i. to make a noise by throwing: to move rapidly: to dash with force: to whirl: (Scot.) to convey in a wheeled vehicle.—v.t. to throw with violence: to utter with vehemence.—n. act of hurling tumult confusion: (Scot.) conveyance in a wheeled vehicle.—ns. Hurl′er; Hurl′ey the game of hockey or the stick used in playing it; Hurl′ing a game in which a ball is forced through the opponent's goal hockey; Hurl′y (Scot.) a wheelbarrow; Hurl′y-hack′et an ill-hung carriage.
Checker: Mara
Examples
- I expect little aid from their hand, said Front-de-Boeuf, unless we were to hurl them from the battlements on the heads of the villains. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Let me see, said the Prince, who dare stop him, fixing his eye on Cedric, whose attitude intimated his intention to hurl the Jew down headlong. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Even then I had no doubt but that the others would hurl themselves upon my back. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Twice more he saw him hurl his arrows of destruction--once at Dango, the hyena, and again at Manu, the monkey. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- He will hurl no darts at me, and your pale sun in England is but a shadow of the glorious Helios of our Greek skies. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- San Paolo be my witness that did ye but find the stout Count Leonardo in his cups, sheer from the castle's topmost battlements would he hurl ye all! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Before I could overtake him he had sprung to the rail and hurled himself headforemost into the awful depths below. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- So frantic were their efforts to escape from the unseen thing behind me that one of the braves was hurled headlong from the cliff to the rocks below. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Concentrating my mind upon the massive lock I hurled the nine thought waves against it. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- The ground, heaving convulsively, hurled every one to the ground, including Maurice and his band, who were just beyond the entrance of the tunnel. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- She did not care what unjust sarcasm might be hurled at her in reply. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Celia was inwardly frightened, and ready to run away, now she had hurled this light javelin. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I hurled it wide of the mark; it rolled clattering among the bushes into dell. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The collision crushed our steel bows, and notwithstanding every effort on our part came near to hurling us from the deck. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- There he perched, hurling taunts and insults at the raging, foaming beast fifty feet below him. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- He planned basilicas and aqueducts, and designed powerful war-e ngines capable of hurling rocks weighing three or four hundred pounds. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- See that you keep yourself out of my grip, he snarled, and hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the room. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- With a cry of encouragement I threw my weight against the secret door, but as well have assayed the down-hurling of the cliffs themselves. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- The most tremendous waterfall in our country is Niagara Falls, which every minute hurls millions of gallons of water down a 163-foot precipice. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The nineteenth century wantons in its giant adolescence; the Titan boy uproots mountains in his game, and hurls rocks in his wild sport. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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