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单词 hurl
释义 hurl
I. \ˈhərl esp before pause or consonant ˈhər.əl; ˈhə̄l, ˈhəil\ verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
Etymology: Middle English hurlen, probably of imitative origin
intransitive verb
1.
 a. : to move rapidly or violently : rush, hurtle
  < sent the car hurling over the roads — Sherwood Anderson >
  < a myriad senseless atoms … go hurling forever through the infinite inane — P.E.More >
 b. : whirl
  < now I've plenty money I'll make the tavern hurl, a bottle of good brandy and on each arm a girl — Carl Sandburg >
2. chiefly Scotland : to wheel or drive in a vehicle especially with a heavy or clumsy movement
 < now and then we'll hurl in a coach — Robert Tannahill >
3.
 a. : to play the game of hurling
 b. baseball : pitch
transitive verb
1.
 a. : to impel with great vigor : drive, thrust
  < could hurl his great strength into the ax head — Irving Bacheller >
  < hurling its mighty breakers upon the rocky ramparts — American Guide Series: Michigan >
  < the forces that were to be hurled against the Turks — N.T.Gilroy >
 b. : to impel (oneself) violently or impetuously
  < he hurled himself around the corner against the squall … with almost drunken violence — Liam O'Flaherty >
  < the characteristic wholeheartedness with which he continued to hurl himself at life — John Mason Brown >
2. : to throw down or out with violence
 < hurl the tyrant from his throne >
3.
 a. : to throw or cast forcefully : fling
  < for forty-five minutes a battleship and lesser ships hurled salvo after salvo at the field — H.L.Merillat >
  < a jet of gas … hurls strings of drill pipe and massive tools upwards — Irish Digest >
  < literally hurling the ring I had given her in my face — Rex Ingamells >
 b. obsolete : to throw in wrestling
 c. baseball : pitch
  < both hurled scoreless ball for five innings — Los Angeles (Calif.) Examiner >
4. : to send or utter with vehemence
 < hurled crisp piercing shrieks at the train — William Beebe >
 < publishers … took a delight in hurling back at the tyro any copy he was venturesome enough to offer — A.W.Long >
 < he suddenly began to hurl reproaches down on her where she sat a little below him — Josephine Pinckney >
5. chiefly Scotland : to wheel or drive (a vehicle) : trundle
Synonyms: see throw
II. noun
(-s)
Etymology: Middle English hurl, hurle swirl of water, strife, from hurlen, v.
1.
 a. : a forceful throw or thrust; specifically : a rushing swirl of water
  < the halt and hurl of an angry, crashing, tempestuous seaway — C.C.Shaw >
 b. Scotland : a downward rush (as of stones on a hill)
2. : the stick used in the Irish game of hurling
III. \ˈhərl\
dialect Britain
variant of whirl
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