单词 | hurl |
释义 | hurl I. intransitive verb 1. a. < sent the car hurling over the roads — Sherwood Anderson > < a myriad senseless atoms … go hurling forever through the infinite inane — P.E.More > b. < 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 < now and then we'll hurl in a coach — Robert Tannahill > 3. a. b. baseball transitive verb 1. a. < 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. < 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. < hurl the tyrant from his throne > 3. a. < 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 c. baseball < both hurled scoreless ball for five innings — Los Angeles (Calif.) Examiner > 4. < 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 Synonyms: see throw II. 1. a. < the halt and hurl of an angry, crashing, tempestuous seaway — C.C.Shaw > b. Scotland 2. III. dialect Britain variant of whirl |
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