hurl

1. 1.

   a violent throw

   Synonymscast

   Broaderthrow

Other forms of hurl

plural

hurls·

past tense

hurled·

present participle

hurling·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hurl

What does hurl mean?

hurl means "throw forcefully". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hurl?

hurl has 1 syllable: hurl. In IPA it is /ˈhɝl/.

What is another word for hurl?

Close synonyms include hurtle, cast, lunge, hurtle, thrust. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hurl a common word?

hurl is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.