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hurkle

hurkle verb: to draw in the parts of the body, especially with pain or cold.

Verb

hurkle (third-person singular simple present hurkles, present participle hurkling, simple past and past participle hurkled)

  1. (dialectal, intransitive) To draw in the parts of the body, especially with pain or cold.
  2. to cower
  3. (dialectal) To contract, to pull in.

hurkle meaning in Bengali

hurkle in Bengali

কুঁকড়ে থাকা, সংকুচিত হওয়া, গুটিয়ে নেওয়া

Forms of hurkle

third-person singular presenthurkles
present participlehurkling
past participlehurkled
pasthurkled

Origin of hurkle

Borrowed from Scots hurkle.

Words that rhyme with hurkle

Questions about hurkle

What does hurkle mean?
Hurkle means to draw in the parts of the body, especially with pain or cold.
What is hurkle in Bengali?
Hurkle in Bengali is কুঁকড়ে থাকা, সংকুচিত হওয়া, গুটিয়ে নেওয়া. See Hurkle meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is hurkle?
Hurkle is a verb.
What is the past tense of hurkle?
The past tense of hurkle is hurkled.

Words near hurkle in the dictionary

  1. hurkarah
  2. hurkarahs
  3. hurkaras
  4. hurkaru
  5. hurkarus
  6. hurkle
  7. hurkle-durkle
  8. hurkle-durkled
  9. hurkle-durkles
  10. hurkle-durkling
  11. hurkled

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hurkle (page history and authors); hurkle (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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