Dictionary Entry
hurl
hurl is a 4-letter English word with 13 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To send whirling or whizzing through the air; to throw with violence; to drive with great force; as, to hurl a stone or lance. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 8 · 13 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To send whirling or whizzing through the air; to throw with violence; to drive with great force; as, to hurl a stone or lance.
- 2transitive verb
To emit or utter with vehemence or impetuosity; as, to hurl charges or invective.
- 3transitive verb
To twist or turn.
- 4intransitive verb
To hurl one's self; to go quickly.
- 5intransitive verb
To perform the act of hurling something; to throw something (at another).
- 6intransitive verb
To play the game of hurling. See Hurling.
- 7noun
The act of hurling or throwing with violence; a cast; a fling.
- 8noun
Tumult; riot; hurly-burly.
- 9noun
A table on which fiber is stirred and mixed by beating with a bowspring.
- 10noun
a violent throw
Synonyms
- 11verb
utter with force; utter vehemently
"hurl insults"
"throw accusations at someone"
Synonyms
- 12verb
throw forcefully
- 13verb
make a thrusting forward movement
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