0 past simple and past participle of hurl
1 to throw something with a lot of force, usually in an angry or violent way:
While two clung to its lower jaw, the others hurled themselves onto its back, with audible impacts.
After several attempts at launching their boat, each resulting in it being hurled ashore half-full of water, they signalled the catcher.
Questions would be hurled at criteria for judgement.
Some bricks made with very little straw are hurled in the direction of those who present ' conventional stereotypes ' of nuns as poverty-stricken and incompetent.
Barely literate, he was only a sergeant-major when the revolution that hurled him to prominence broke out in 1974.
Is the spear unintelligible that, hurled by a steady hand, penetrates the heart of the enemy?
Meanwhile, our bearings are hurled into temporary flux as the telescope begins reeling against the walls behind it.
One capuchin's getting a slice of cucumber while observing others getting a much nicer reward in identical circumstances leads to cucumber slices being hurled at human experimenters.
