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Noun [English]

IPA: /hɜːl/ [UK], /hɝl/ [US] Audio: En-au-hurl.ogg Forms: hurls [plural]
Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)l Etymology: Inherited from Middle English hurlen, of onomatopoeic origin; compare hurry, hurtle. Etymology templates: {{glossary|Inherited}} Inherited, {{inh|en|enm|hurlen|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Middle English hurlen, {{inh+|en|enm|hurlen}} Inherited from Middle English hurlen, {{onomatopoeic|en|nocap=1}} onomatopoeic Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} hurl (countable and uncountable, plural hurls)
  1. (countable) A throw, especially a violent throw; a fling. Tags: countable
    Sense id: en-hurl-en-noun-P9nqHpDN
  2. (slang) The act of vomiting. Tags: countable, slang, uncountable
    Sense id: en-hurl-en-noun-TGhkx3DB
  3. (slang, uncountable) Vomit. Tags: slang, uncountable
    Sense id: en-hurl-en-noun-OGv9Furn
  4. (hurling, countable) The act of hitting the sliotar with the hurley. Tags: countable Categories (topical): Hurling
    Sense id: en-hurl-en-noun-Td4aKKEX
  5. (Ulster, Scotland, slang, countable) A conveyance in a wheeled vehicle; a ride in a car, etc. Tags: Scotland, Ulster, countable, slang
    Sense id: en-hurl-en-noun-RIqMCEt7 Categories (other): Scottish English, Ulster English, Entries with translation boxes Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 4 4 3 7 18 13 20 1 3 3 1 1 2 18
  6. (obsolete) Tumult; riot; hurly-burly. Tags: countable, obsolete, uncountable
    Sense id: en-hurl-en-noun-LbUPOZgX Categories (other): Entries with translation boxes Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 4 4 3 7 18 13 20 1 3 3 1 1 2 18
  7. (obsolete, countable) A table on which fibre is stirred and mixed by beating with a bow spring. Tags: countable, obsolete
    Sense id: en-hurl-en-noun-wdhP5zwC Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English onomatopoeias, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Ancient Greek translations, Terms with Arabic translations, Terms with Armenian translations, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Czech translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Friulian translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Icelandic translations, Terms with Irish translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Latin translations, Terms with Macedonian translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Middle English translations, Terms with Old Irish translations, Terms with Persian translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Slovak translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations, Terms with Tetum translations, Terms with Turkish translations, Terms with Venetian translations, Terms with Zazaki translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 2 3 1 10 13 18 32 0 4 2 0 0 1 13 Disambiguation of English onomatopoeias: 4 4 3 10 12 16 25 1 5 3 1 1 3 11 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 4 4 3 7 18 13 20 1 3 3 1 1 2 18 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 3 3 3 14 12 16 26 1 3 2 1 1 2 12 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 2 2 2 10 14 18 31 1 2 2 1 1 2 14 Disambiguation of Terms with Ancient Greek translations: 4 6 2 6 12 12 23 2 5 5 2 2 3 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Arabic translations: 6 3 2 9 12 16 22 1 5 6 1 1 2 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Armenian translations: 6 4 2 9 12 16 21 1 4 6 1 1 2 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 5 4 3 9 12 15 22 2 5 6 2 2 3 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Czech translations: 6 6 2 8 12 16 22 1 4 5 1 1 2 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 5 5 4 9 12 14 22 1 5 4 1 1 3 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 5 4 3 9 12 16 23 2 5 5 2 2 3 12 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 5 5 4 9 14 14 22 1 5 3 1 1 3 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Friulian translations: 5 4 2 9 13 15 22 1 5 5 1 1 3 13 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 4 4 3 8 14 14 23 2 5 4 2 2 3 14 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 4 7 2 8 10 13 30 1 4 5 1 1 2 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Icelandic translations: 5 4 2 9 13 15 22 1 5 5 1 1 3 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Irish translations: 5 3 2 8 15 14 21 1 5 5 1 1 2 15 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 4 4 3 9 13 15 25 1 5 3 1 1 3 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Latin translations: 4 4 3 9 13 15 25 1 5 3 1 1 3 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Macedonian translations: 5 5 3 9 12 15 22 2 5 5 2 2 3 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 4 7 2 7 12 13 26 1 5 3 1 1 3 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Middle English translations: 4 5 4 9 13 15 22 1 5 3 1 1 3 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Old Irish translations: 5 3 2 8 15 14 21 1 5 5 1 1 2 15 Disambiguation of Terms with Persian translations: 5 5 2 9 12 15 23 1 5 5 1 1 3 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 5 4 2 8 12 14 23 1 7 5 1 1 2 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 4 4 3 8 15 14 24 1 5 3 1 1 3 15 Disambiguation of Terms with Slovak translations: 5 5 3 9 12 15 22 2 5 5 2 2 3 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 4 4 4 8 14 15 26 1 4 3 1 1 2 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 5 3 3 9 14 15 23 1 5 5 1 1 2 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Tetum translations: 4 4 3 9 13 15 25 1 5 3 1 1 3 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Turkish translations: 5 3 3 9 14 15 23 1 5 5 1 1 2 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Venetian translations: 5 4 2 8 13 15 23 1 5 5 1 1 3 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Zazaki translations: 4 4 3 9 13 15 25 1 5 3 1 1 3 12

Verb [English]

IPA: /hɜːl/ [UK], /hɝl/ [US] Audio: En-au-hurl.ogg Forms: hurls [present, singular, third-person], hurling [participle, present], hurled [participle, past], hurled [past]
Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)l Etymology: Inherited from Middle English hurlen, of onomatopoeic origin; compare hurry, hurtle. Etymology templates: {{glossary|Inherited}} Inherited, {{inh|en|enm|hurlen|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Middle English hurlen, {{inh+|en|enm|hurlen}} Inherited from Middle English hurlen, {{onomatopoeic|en|nocap=1}} onomatopoeic Head templates: {{en-verb}} hurl (third-person singular simple present hurls, present participle hurling, simple past and past participle hurled)
  1. (transitive) To throw (something) with force. Tags: transitive Translations (throw with force): βάλλω (bállō) (Ancient Greek), أَلْقَى (ʔalqā) (Arabic), շպրտել (šprtel) (Armenian), хвърлям (hvǎrljam) (Bulgarian), мятам (mjatam) (Bulgarian), 猛投 (Chinese Mandarin), 猛掷 (Chinese Mandarin), mrštit (Czech), smijten (Dutch), werpen (Dutch), paiskata (Finnish), heittää (Finnish), projeter (French), slançâ (Friulian), schleudern (German), lök (Hungarian), hajít (Hungarian), vág (Hungarian), grýta (Icelandic), rad (Irish), lanciare (Italian), tirare (Italian), slanciare (Italian), iaciō (Latin), фр́ли (fŕli) (Macedonian), ме́тне (métne) (Macedonian), swyngen (Middle English), swengen (Middle English), do·bidci (Old Irish), شلیک کردن (šellik kardan) (Persian), arremessar (Portuguese), atirar (Portuguese), швыря́ть (švyrjátʹ) (Russian), швырну́ть (švyrnútʹ) [perfective] (Russian), броса́ть (brosátʹ) (Russian), бро́сить (brósitʹ) [perfective] (Russian), šmariť (Slovak), arrojar (Spanish), lanzar (Spanish), tirar (Spanish), proyectar (Spanish), slunga (Swedish), tuda (Tetum), fırlatmak (Turkish), slansar (Venetian), lansar (Venetian), esten (Zazaki)
    Sense id: en-hurl-en-verb-cgiB2isT Disambiguation of 'throw with force': 100 0 0 0 0 0 0
  2. (transitive) To utter (harsh or derogatory speech), especially at its target. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-hurl-en-verb-62nVCE6G
  3. (intransitive) To participate in the sport of hurling. Tags: intransitive
    Sense id: en-hurl-en-verb-ZlasTJdd
  4. (intransitive, slang) To vomit. Tags: intransitive, slang
    Sense id: en-hurl-en-verb-ndNoz1AC
  5. (obsolete, transitive) To twist or turn. Tags: obsolete, transitive
    Sense id: en-hurl-en-verb-s~YchCiQ
  6. (obsolete) To move rapidly with a noise; to whirl. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-hurl-en-verb-VkwujqFc
  7. (Scotland, transitive, obsolete) To convey in a wheeled vehicle. Tags: Scotland, obsolete, transitive
    Sense id: en-hurl-en-verb-~Vk0Gyd2 Categories (other): Scottish English, Entries with translation boxes Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 4 4 3 7 18 13 20 1 3 3 1 1 2 18
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: hurl chunks, hurly-hacket

Verb [Middle English]

Head templates: {{head|enm|verb}} hurl
  1. Alternative form of hurlen Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: hurlen
    Sense id: en-hurl-enm-verb-FmPAgQDw Categories (other): Middle English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "a. 1722, Matthew Prior, “Fragment”, in H. Bunker Wright, Monroe K. Spears, editors, The Literary Works of Matthew Prior, Second edition, volume I, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1971, pages 720–721:",
          "text": "Thou shalt have Preists immers’t in lust and gluttony\nAnd bishops three times married, thy cathedrals\nThe Seats where Prayer and hospitality\nShould dwel, shall be the taverns\nWhere Drunken bowles incessantly goe round\nIn leud debauch and midnight dice are hurld,\nThe beds wherein the wearied Pilgrim us’d\nTo ease his crippled Limbs, he now shall find\nPossess’t with Women, nurses, she attandants,\nAnd a Dishonest brood of ugly children.",
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          "ref": "1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot, Chapter IV:",
          "text": "I was standing on the edge of the conning-tower, when a heavy palm suddenly struck me between the shoulders and hurled me forward into space. The drop to the triangular deck forward of the conning-tower might easily have broken a leg for me, or I might have slipped off onto the deck and rolled overboard; but fate was upon my side, as I was only slightly bruised.",
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        {
          "ref": "2011 September 2, “Wales 2-1 Montenegro”, in BBC:",
          "text": "The Tottenham wing was causing havoc down the right and when he broke past the bemused Sasa Balic once again, Bellamy was millimetres from connecting with his cross as the Liverpool striker hurled himself at the ball.",
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        "(transitive) To throw (something) with force."
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          "lang": "Armenian",
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          "sense": "throw with force",
          "word": "շպրտել"
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          "sense": "throw with force",
          "word": "猛投"
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          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "throw with force",
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          "sense": "throw with force",
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          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "throw with force",
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          "sense": "throw with force",
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          "sense": "throw with force",
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          "sense": "throw with force",
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          "sense": "throw with force",
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          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "throw with force",
          "word": "schleudern"
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          "sense": "throw with force",
          "word": "βάλλω"
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          "sense": "throw with force",
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          "sense": "throw with force",
          "word": "vág"
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          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "throw with force",
          "word": "grýta"
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          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "throw with force",
          "word": "rad"
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          "code": "sga",
          "lang": "Old Irish",
          "sense": "throw with force",
          "word": "do·bidci"
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          "_dis1": "100 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "throw with force",
          "word": "lanciare"
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        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "throw with force",
          "word": "tirare"
        },
        {
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          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "throw with force",
          "word": "slanciare"
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          "_dis1": "100 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "throw with force",
          "word": "iaciō"
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          "_dis1": "100 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "fŕli",
          "sense": "throw with force",
          "word": "фр́ли"
        },
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          "sense": "throw with force",
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          "lang": "Middle English",
          "sense": "throw with force",
          "word": "swyngen"
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          "code": "enm",
          "lang": "Middle English",
          "sense": "throw with force",
          "word": "swengen"
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          "_dis1": "100 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "roman": "šellik kardan",
          "sense": "throw with force",
          "word": "شلیک کردن"
        },
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          "_dis1": "100 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "throw with force",
          "word": "arremessar"
        },
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          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "throw with force",
          "word": "atirar"
        },
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          "_dis1": "100 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "švyrjátʹ",
          "sense": "throw with force",
          "word": "швыря́ть"
        },
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          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "švyrnútʹ",
          "sense": "throw with force",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "швырну́ть"
        },
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          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "brosátʹ",
          "sense": "throw with force",
          "word": "броса́ть"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "brósitʹ",
          "sense": "throw with force",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "бро́сить"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "sk",
          "lang": "Slovak",
          "sense": "throw with force",
          "word": "šmariť"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "throw with force",
          "word": "arrojar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "throw with force",
          "word": "lanzar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "throw with force",
          "word": "tirar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "throw with force",
          "word": "proyectar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "throw with force",
          "word": "slunga"
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          "code": "tet",
          "lang": "Tetum",
          "sense": "throw with force",
          "word": "tuda"
        },
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          "_dis1": "100 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "throw with force",
          "word": "fırlatmak"
        },
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          "_dis1": "100 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "vec",
          "lang": "Venetian",
          "sense": "throw with force",
          "word": "slansar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "vec",
          "lang": "Venetian",
          "sense": "throw with force",
          "word": "lansar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "zza",
          "lang": "Zazaki",
          "sense": "throw with force",
          "word": "esten"
        }
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          "text": "The gangs hurled abuse at each other.",
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          "ref": "1912, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 5:",
          "text": "Tarzan on his part never lost an opportunity to show that he fully reciprocated his foster father's sentiments, and whenever he could safely annoy him or make faces at him or hurl insults upon him from the safety of his mother's arms, or the slender branches of the higher trees, he did so.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1984, New International Version of the Bible, Mark 15:29-30:",
          "text": "Those who passed by hurled insults at him, shaking their heads and saying, “So! You who are going to destroy the temple and build it in three days, come down from the cross and save yourself!\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Daniel Gray, Saturday, 3pm: 50 Eternal Delights of Modern Football:",
          "text": "It is Boxing Day in a football ground, and all we can do is sprawl over the plastic, hurling instructions and vague encouragement.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "To utter (harsh or derogatory speech), especially at its target."
      ],
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        "(transitive) To utter (harsh or derogatory speech), especially at its target."
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    },
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      "examples": [
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          "ref": "2011 August 3, Donnchadh Boyle, “Egan targets Rebel success to rescue poor season”, in Irish Independent:",
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          "ref": "a. 1722, Matthew Prior, “Fragment”, in H. Bunker Wright, Monroe K. Spears, editors, The Literary Works of Matthew Prior, Second edition, volume I, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1971, pages 720–721:",
          "text": "Thou shalt have Preists immers’t in lust and gluttony\nAnd bishops three times married, thy cathedrals\nThe Seats where Prayer and hospitality\nShould dwel, shall be the taverns\nWhere Drunken bowles incessantly goe round\nIn leud debauch and midnight dice are hurld,\nThe beds wherein the wearied Pilgrim us’d\nTo ease his crippled Limbs, he now shall find\nPossess’t with Women, nurses, she attandants,\nAnd a Dishonest brood of ugly children.",
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          "ref": "1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot, Chapter IV:",
          "text": "I was standing on the edge of the conning-tower, when a heavy palm suddenly struck me between the shoulders and hurled me forward into space. The drop to the triangular deck forward of the conning-tower might easily have broken a leg for me, or I might have slipped off onto the deck and rolled overboard; but fate was upon my side, as I was only slightly bruised.",
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          "ref": "2011 September 2, “Wales 2-1 Montenegro”, in BBC:",
          "text": "The Tottenham wing was causing havoc down the right and when he broke past the bemused Sasa Balic once again, Bellamy was millimetres from connecting with his cross as the Liverpool striker hurled himself at the ball.",
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        "To throw (something) with force."
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        "(transitive) To throw (something) with force."
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          "ref": "1912, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 5:",
          "text": "Tarzan on his part never lost an opportunity to show that he fully reciprocated his foster father's sentiments, and whenever he could safely annoy him or make faces at him or hurl insults upon him from the safety of his mother's arms, or the slender branches of the higher trees, he did so.",
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          "ref": "1984, New International Version of the Bible, Mark 15:29-30:",
          "text": "Those who passed by hurled insults at him, shaking their heads and saying, “So! You who are going to destroy the temple and build it in three days, come down from the cross and save yourself!\"",
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          "ref": "2016, Daniel Gray, Saturday, 3pm: 50 Eternal Delights of Modern Football:",
          "text": "It is Boxing Day in a football ground, and all we can do is sprawl over the plastic, hurling instructions and vague encouragement.",
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          "ref": "2011 August 3, Donnchadh Boyle, “Egan targets Rebel success to rescue poor season”, in Irish Independent:",
          "text": "Their cause was helped after the senior footballers were unexpectedly dumped out of the running for the Sam Maguire, meaning Aidan Walsh is available to hurl full-time with the young Rebels -- Walsh scored 1-1 in the semi-final victory over reigning All-Ireland champions Tipperary.",
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          "text": "Pass me the bucket; I've got to hurl.",
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        "To vomit."
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        "(intransitive, slang) To vomit."
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          "ref": "1645, Thomas Fuller, Good Thoughts in Bad Times:",
          "text": "On Nicias a philosopher having his shoes stolen from him, may they, said he, fit his feet that took them away. A wish at the first view very harmless, but there was that in it which poisoned his charity into a malicious revenge. For he himself had hurled or crooked feet, so that in effect he wished the thief to be lame.",
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        "To twist or turn."
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        "To convey in a wheeled vehicle."
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      "sense": "throw with force",
      "word": "أَلْقَى"
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      "word": "շպրտել"
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      "word": "хвърлям"
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      "word": "мятам"
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      "sense": "throw with force",
      "word": "猛投"
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      "word": "猛掷"
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      "sense": "throw with force",
      "word": "paiskata"
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      "sense": "throw with force",
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      "word": "projeter"
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      "sense": "throw with force",
      "word": "slançâ"
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      "word": "schleudern"
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      "sense": "throw with force",
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      "code": "hu",
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      "sense": "throw with force",
      "word": "lök"
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      "code": "hu",
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      "sense": "throw with force",
      "word": "hajít"
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      "code": "hu",
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      "word": "vág"
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      "word": "rad"
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      "code": "it",
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      "word": "tirare"
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      "code": "it",
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      "word": "slanciare"
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      "sense": "throw with force",
      "word": "iaciō"
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      "sense": "throw with force",
      "word": "фр́ли"
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      "word": "ме́тне"
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      "word": "swyngen"
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      "word": "شلیک کردن"
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      "code": "pt",
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      "word": "arremessar"
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      "code": "pt",
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      "word": "atirar"
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      "word": "швыря́ть"
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      "code": "sk",
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      "word": "šmariť"
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      "code": "es",
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      "sense": "throw with force",
      "word": "fırlatmak"
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      "code": "vec",
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      "word": "slansar"
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      "word": "lansar"
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      "code": "zza",
      "lang": "Zazaki",
      "sense": "throw with force",
      "word": "esten"
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          "ref": "1695, William Congreve, “To the King, on the Taking of Namure. Irregular Ode.”, in Poems Upon Several Occasions, Glasgow, published 1752, page 16:",
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          "text": "Maybe you can give me a hurl in the Bentley one day, when you're in the vicinity.",
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          "bow spring"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete, countable) A table on which fibre is stirred and mixed by beating with a bow spring."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/hɜːl/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hɝl/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-au-hurl.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d0/En-au-hurl.ogg/En-au-hurl.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d0/En-au-hurl.ogg"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɜː(ɹ)l"
    }
  ],
  "word": "hurl"
}

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  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "verb"
      },
      "expansion": "hurl",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Middle English",
  "lang_code": "enm",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "hurlen"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
        "Middle English lemmas",
        "Middle English verbs",
        "Pages with 2 entries",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of hurlen"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "hurlen",
          "hurlen#Middle_English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "hurl"
}

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