Thesaurus: hurl
To send whirling or whizzing through the air; to throw with violence; to drive with great force; as, to hurl a stone or lance.
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Definitions
- 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.
- n. a violent throw
- v. throw forcefully
- v. make a thrusting forward movement