hurl
Other forms: hurled; hurling; hurls
When you hurl something, you throw it hard. You might hurl your shoe at a horrible bug if it suddenly scuttled across the floor.
If you hurl a rock at a glass window, it will probably break, and if you hurl your trash in the direction of a garbage can, it may or may not land inside. The verb hurl implies some force behind your throw. The earliest English version was hurlen, which in the thirteenth century meant "run against each other or collide." It probably comes from the Germanic root hurr, which is also the root of hurry, and means "rapid motion."
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throw forcefullytypes:precipitatehurl or throw violentlybowlhurl a cricket ball from one end of the pitch towards the batsman at the other endtype of:throwpropel through the air
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make a thrusting forward movement
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utter with force; utter vehemently
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a violent throw
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