HURL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hurl mean? 

• HURL (noun)
  The noun HURL has 1 sense:

1. a violent throw

  Familiarity information: HURL used as a noun is very rare.

• HURL (verb)
  The verb HURL has 3 senses:

1. throw forcefully

2. make a thrusting forward movement

3. utter with force; utter vehemently

  Familiarity information: HURL used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HURL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A violent throw

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

cast; hurl

Hypernyms ("hurl" is a kind of...):

throw (the act of throwing (propelling something with a rapid movement of the arm and wrist))

Derivation:

hurl (throw forcefully)

hurl (make a thrusting forward movement)

• HURL (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they hurl    ... he / she / it hurls   
Past simple: hurled   
Past participle: hurled   
-ing form: hurling   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Throw forcefully

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

cast; hurl; hurtle

Hypernyms (to "hurl" is one way to...):

throw (propel through the air)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "hurl"):

crash; dash (hurl or thrust violently)

precipitate (hurl or throw violently)

catapult; sling (hurl as if with a sling)

bowl (hurl a cricket ball from one end of the pitch towards the batsman at the other end)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Sentence example:

They hurl the object in the water

Derivation:

hurl (a violent throw)

hurler ((baseball) the person who does the pitching)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make a thrusting forward movement

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

hurl; hurtle; lunge; thrust

Hypernyms (to "hurl" is one way to...):

move (move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "hurl"):

dart (move with sudden speed)

riposte (make a return thrust)

Sentence frames:

Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

hurl (a violent throw)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Utter with force; utter vehemently

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

hurl; throw

Context example:

throw accusations at someone

Hypernyms (to "hurl" is one way to...):

express; give tongue to; utter; verbalise; verbalize (articulate; either verbally or with a cry, shout, or noise)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

Springing forward, he hurled his unwieldy weapon at brother Ambrose, and, as desk and monk clattered on to the floor together, he sprang through the open door and down the winding stair.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

With a wrench, which threw his victim back upon the bed as though hurled from a height, he turned and sprang at us.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

And the women and children, from above, shall loosen the great rocks and hurl them down upon them.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

So unexpected was it, and so shrewdly managed, that Spitz was hurled backward and off his feet.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

The key, having served its purpose, would be hurled away.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At that instant Holmes sprang like a tiger on to the marksman’s back, and hurled him flat upon his face.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I looked at him, the man who had been hurled down from the topmost pitch of life to be buried alive and be worse than dead.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Then he would seize brands from the fire and hurl them into the pack.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Dutch Sam hurled a shilling down upon the table, and offered to fight the Pride of Westminster for it if he ventured to say that Mendoza had been fairly beaten.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Other ape-men in the trees above us hurled down stones and logs of wood, occasionally dropping bodily on to our ranks and fighting furiously until they were felled.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)