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What (who) is hurl - definition
hurl
(hurls, hurling, hurled)
1.
If you hurl something, you throw it violently and with a lot of force.
Groups of angry youths hurled stones at police...
Simon caught the grenade and hurled it back...
Gangs rioted last night, breaking storefront windows and hurling rocks and bottles.
VERB: V n prep, V n with adv, V n
2.
If you hurl abuse or insults at someone, you shout insults at them aggressively.
How would you handle being locked in the back of a cab while the driver hurled abuse at you?
VERB: V n at n, also V n
Hurl
·vt To twist or turn.
II. Hurl ·noun Tumult; riot; hurly-burly.
III. Hurl ·vi To hurl one's self; to go quickly.
IV. Hurl ·noun The act of hurling or throwing with violence; a cast; a fling.
V. Hurl ·vi To play the game of hurling. ·see Hurling.
VI. Hurl ·noun A table on which fiber is stirred and mixed by beating with a bowspring.
VII. Hurl ·vi To perform the act of hurling something; to throw something (at another).
VIII. Hurl ·vt To emit or utter with vehemence or impetuosity; as, to hurl charges or invective.
IX. Hurl ·vt To send whirling or whizzing through the air; to throw with violence; to drive with great force; as, to hurl a stone or lance.
hurl
I. v. a.
1.
Throw, fling, cast, pitch, send, sling, throw violently, send whirling, send whizzing.
2.
Utter violently, fulminate, thunder.
II. n.
1.
Throw, cast, fling.
2.
Tumult, commotion, turmoil, confusion, bustle, disturbance, hurly-burly, hullabaloo.
Examples of use of hurl
1. What‘s that word that New Labour hurl at the Conservatives?
2. People are lining up to hurl accusations at DnipropetrovskGorGaz.
3. When they are detonated, they can hurl shrapnel 40 yards.
4. They hurl a rock the size of a cricket ball well over hundred yards.
5. Even when the water subsided, the hurricane continued to hurl seawater at the shore.