Definition of Hurl

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Definition of Hurl

Hurl

To send whirling or whizzing through the air; to throw with violence; to drive with great force; as, to hurl a stone or lance.

To emit or utter with vehemence or impetuosity; as, to hurl charges or invective.

To twist or turn.

To hurl one's self; to go quickly.

To perform the act of hurling something; to throw something (at another).

To play the game of hurling. See Hurling.

The act of hurling or throwing with violence; a cast; a fling.

Tumult; riot; hurly-burly.

A table on which fiber is stirred and mixed by beating with a bowspring.

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Hurl Quotations

I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
Octavia Butler

I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all.
Richard Wright

Sometimes I think that the biggest difference between men and women is that more men need to seek out some terrible lurking thing in existence and hurl themselves upon it. Women know where it lives but they can let it alone.
Russell Hoban

Hurl Translations

hurl in German is schleudern
hurl in Italian is avventare
hurl in Latin is iacio
hurl in Norwegian is slynge, kaste
hurl in Spanish is lanzamiento, arrojar
hurl in Swedish is kasta, slunga, kast

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