hurl

Plural: hurls

Noun

• a violent throw
• A throw, especially a violent throw; a fling.
• The act of vomiting.
• Vomit.
• The act of hitting the sliotar with the hurley.
• A conveyance in a wheeled vehicle; a ride in a car, etc.
• Tumult; riot; hurly-burly.
• A table on which fibre is stirred and mixed by beating with a bow spring.

Verb

Verb Forms: hurled, hurling, hurls

• To throw with great force.
• throw forcefully
• make a thrusting forward movement
• utter with force; utter vehemently
  • "hurl insults"
• To throw (something) with force.
• To utter (harsh or derogatory speech), especially at its target.
• To participate in the sport of hurling.
• To vomit.
• To twist or turn.
• To move rapidly with a noise; to whirl.
• To convey in a wheeled vehicle.

Examples

• He managed a hurl of 50.3 metres.
• He wanted to hurl his Scrabble tiles across the room after drawing three Q’s and no U’s.
• Open the window! I've gotta take a hurl.
• The gangs hurled abuse at each other.

Synonyms

cast, hurtle, lunge, throw, thrust, bait, barf, be sick, blow chunks, boak, boke, boot, bork, bow down before the porcelain god, bung, cast up one's accounts, chuck, chuck up, chunder, chunk, cook, dash, disgorge, drive the porcelain bus, dump, erupt, feck, fling, gag, get sick, heave, hield, honk, hoy, huck, hurl, jerk, launch, launch one's lunch, lob, lose one's lunch, peck, peg, pick, pitch, pray to the porcelain god, precipitate, project, puke, puke up, purge, quoit, ralph, regurge, regurgitate, retch, shoot the cat, shy, sick, sick up, skew, slight, sling, spew, talk to God on the big white telephone, talk to Ralph on the big white telephone, thrill, throw up, toss, toss one's cookies, traject, upchuck, vomit, warp, whang, whip, whoops, whop, wing, woof one's cookies, worship the porcelain god, worship the porcelain goddess, yak

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