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outhurling

outhurling is the present participle and gerund of outhurl.

Meaning of outhurl

Verb

outhurl (third-person singular simple present outhurls, present participle outhurling, simple past and past participle outhurled)

  1. (transitive) To surpass in hurling or throwing.
    • In the spear-throwing competition, I was the victor, outhurling Phyleus.2017, David Bruce, Homer's Iliad: A Retelling in Prose, page 341

Questions about outhurling

What is outhurling the present participle and gerund of?
Outhurling is the present participle and gerund of outhurl.

Words near outhurling in the dictionary

  1. outhunted
  2. outhunting
  3. outhunts
  4. outhurl
  5. outhurled
  6. outhurling
  7. outhurls
  8. outhustle
  9. outhustled
  10. outhustles
  11. outhustling

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Adapted from Wiktionary: outhurling (page history and authors); outhurl (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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