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overhurl

overhurl verb: to overthrow.

Verb

overhurl (third-person singular simple present overhurls, present participle overhurling, simple past and past participle overhurled)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To overthrow.
    • Various Reports are cast about the World, / As tho' some should be overhurl'd.1803, Collection of English Almanacs for the Years 1702-1835, page 18
    • Unmake and despoil and unshape him, overhurling our tyrant and lord1875, George Barlow, Under the Dawn, page 39

Forms of overhurl

third-person singular presentoverhurls
present participleoverhurling
past participleoverhurled
pastoverhurled

Origin of overhurl

over- + hurl

Questions about overhurl

What does overhurl mean?
Overhurl means to overthrow.
What part of speech is overhurl?
Overhurl is a verb.
What is the past tense of overhurl?
The past tense of overhurl is overhurled.

Words near overhurl in the dictionary

  1. overhungry
  2. overhunt
  3. overhunted
  4. overhunting
  5. overhunts
  6. overhurl
  7. overhurled
  8. overhurling
  9. overhurls
  10. overhurried
  11. overhurriedly

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