hurl

CEFRC1

/hɜːl/

verb

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In plain English

01
verb
To throw something with great force.
02
verb
Extra detail
To participate in the sport of hurling.

Examples

I hoped you could hurl some lumens into the gloom.
If you hurl a handful of stones, at least one will hit.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 5
Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 5
Synonyms: 5

Also pronounced

/heːl/

Deep Dive

verb

Extra meanings

To utter (harsh or derogatory speech), especially at its target.
To throw (something) with force.
To vomit.

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In context

He managed a hurl of 50.3 metres.
I laid down this law with all the girls and expected to receive a hurl of abuse back.
The gangs hurled abuse at each other.

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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 us’d To ease his crippled Limbs, he now shall find Possess’t with Women, nurses, she attandants, And a Dishonest brood of ugly children.
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 720–721
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 overboard; but fate was upon my side, as I was only slightly bruised.
1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot, Chapter IV
The Tottenham wing was causing havoc down the right and when he broke past the bemused Sasa Balic once again, Bellamy was millimetres from connecting with his cross as the Liverpool striker hurled himself at the ball.
2011 September 2, “Wales 2-1 Montenegro”, in BBC
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
Those who passed by hurled insults at him, shaking their heads and saying, “So! You who are going to destroy the temple and build it in three days, come down from the cross and save yourself!"
1984, New International Version of the Bible, Mark 15:29-30

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Origin

verb

Inherited from Middle English hurlen, of onomatopoeic origin; compare hurry, hurtle.

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He wound up his arm and prepared to blank— the ball across the field.

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verb

He wound up his arm and prepared to blank the ball across the field.