hurl
UK/hɜːl/US/hɝl/
hurl verb: to throw (something) with force.
Verb
hurl (third-person singular simple present hurls, present participle hurling, simple past and past participle hurled)
- To throw (something) with force.
- Thou shalt have Preists immers’t in lust and gluttony
And bishops three times married, thy cathedrals
The Seats where Prayer and hospitality
Should dwel, shall be the taverns
Where Drunken bowles incessantly goe round
In leud debauch and midnight dice are hurld,
The beds wherein the wearied Pilgrim...a. 1722, Matthew Prior, “Fragment”, in H. Bunker Wright, Monroe K. Spears, editors, The Literary Works of Matthew Prior, Second edition, volume I, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1971, pages... - I was standing on the edge of the conning-tower, when a heavy palm suddenly struck me between the shoulders and hurled me forward into space. The drop to the triangular deck forward of the conning-tower might easily have broken a leg for me, or I might have slipped off onto the deck and rolled...1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot, Chapter IV
- Thou shalt have Preists immers’t in lust and gluttony
- To utter (harsh or derogatory speech), especially at its target.
- The gangs hurled abuse at each other.
- Tarzan on his part never lost an opportunity to show that he fully reciprocated his foster father's sentiments, and whenever he could safely annoy him or make faces at him or hurl insults upon him from the safety of his mother's arms, or the slender branches of the higher trees, he did so.1912, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 5
- To participate in the sport of hurling.
- Their cause was helped after the senior footballers were unexpectedly dumped out of the running for the Sam Maguire, meaning Aidan Walsh is available to hurl full-time with the young Rebels -- Walsh scored 1-1 in the semi-final victory over reigning All-Ireland champions Tipperary.2011 August 3, Donnchadh Boyle, “Egan targets Rebel success to rescue poor season”, in Irish Independent
- To vomit.
- I shake and bake the world
Rearrange like the chemical Jheri curl, drink til I hurl1995, Nine, “Da Fundamentalz”, in Nine Livez
- Synonyms:
- throw up, bait, barf, be sick, blow chunks, boak, boke, boot, bork, bow down before the porcelain god
- I shake and bake the world
- To twist or turn.
- On Nicias a philosopher having his shoes stolen from him, may they, said he, fit his feet that took them away. A wish at the first view very harmless, but there was that in it which poisoned his charity into a malicious revenge. For he himself had hurled or crooked feet, so that in effect he wished...1645, Thomas Fuller, Good Thoughts in Bad Times
- To move rapidly with a noise; to whirl.
- To convey in a wheeled vehicle.
Noun
hurl (countable and uncountable, plural hurls)
- A throw, especially a violent throw; a fling.
- He managed a hurl of 50.3 metres.
- The Gods, with horror and amaze, look’d down,
Beholding rocks from their firm basis rent;
Mountain on mountain thrown,
With threatening hurl, that shook th’ aethereal [var.: aerial] firmament!1695, William Congreve, “To the King, on the Taking of Namure. Irregular Ode.”, in Poems Upon Several Occasions, Glasgow, published 1752, page 16
- The act of vomiting.
- Open the window! I've gotta take a hurl.
- Vomit.
- WAYNE: What I'd really like to do is something extraordinary. Something big. […] But I'll probably end up working at Great America, mopping up hurl and lung butter.1993, Wayne's World 2 (film)
- The act of hitting the sliotar with the hurley.
- A conveyance in a wheeled vehicle; a ride in a car, etc.
- Maybe you can give me a hurl in the Bentley one day, when you're in the vicinity.2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 413
- Tumult; riot; hurly-burly.
- A table on which fibre is stirred and mixed by beating with a bow spring.
hurl meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
hurl in Tamil
- எறிவு, தூக்கி எறி, விரைந்தெறி, வீசு
hurl in Urdu
- پھینکنا
hurl in Bengali
- বেগে নিক্ষেপ করা, ছুড়ে মারা, তীব্রভাবে বলা
hurl in Malayalam
- വീശിയെറിയുക, ചുഴറ്റിയെറിയുക, അധിക്ഷേപിക്കുക
More languagesFewer languages
- hurl in Kannada
- ಎಸೆ, ಒಗೆ, ಬಿಸಾಡು, ಬಿಸುಡು
- hurl in Sanskrit
- प्रहृ prahṛ, प्रसू prasū, प्रेष् preṣ
- hurl in Arabic
- أَلْقَى ʔalqā
- hurl in Persian
- شلیک کردن šellik kardan
Examples of hurl in a sentence
- I was standing on the edge of the conning-tower, when a heavy palm suddenly struck me between the shoulders and hurled me forward into space.1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot, Chapter IV:
- Those who passed by hurled insults at him, shaking their heads and saying, “So!1984, New International Version of the Bible, Mark 15:29-30:
- It is Boxing Day in a football ground, and all we can do is sprawl over the plastic, hurling instructions and vague encouragement.2016, Daniel Gray, Saturday, 3pm: 50 Eternal Delights of Modern Football:
- For he himself had hurled or crooked feet, so that in effect he wished the thief to be lame.1645, Thomas Fuller, Good Thoughts in Bad Times:
Synonyms of hurl
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Forms of hurl
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | hurls |
| present participle | hurling |
| past participle | hurled |
| past | hurled |
| Noun | |
| plural | hurls |
Origin of hurl
Inherited from Middle English hurlen, of onomatopoeic origin; compare hurry, hurtle.
Words formed from hurl
Words that rhyme with hurl
Questions about hurl
- What does hurl mean?
- Hurl means to throw (something) with force.
- What is hurl in Tamil?
- Hurl in Tamil is எறிவு, தூக்கி எறி, விரைந்தெறி. See Hurl meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use hurl in a sentence?
- I was standing on the edge of the conning-tower, when a heavy palm suddenly struck me between the shoulders and hurled me forward into space.
- What part of speech is hurl?
- Hurl can be a verb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce hurl?
- Hurl is pronounced /hɜːl/ (UK).
- What is the past tense of hurl?
- The past tense of hurl is hurled.
Words near hurl in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: hurl (page history and authors); hurl (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); hurl (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Hurl (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); hurl (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); hurl (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); प्रसू (Sanskrit) (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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