I hoped you could hurl some lumens into the gloom.
Source: tatoeba (2069532)
Hurl
//hɝl//
Synonyms for "hurl" (163 found)
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Closest matches (33)
Strong matches (49)
Related words (81)
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1 entriesderived
7 entriesetymologically related_to
1 entrieshas context
3 entriesis a
1 entriesmanner of
2 entriesrelated to
15 entriesTranslations
48 translations across 30 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- βάλλω verb (throw with force)
Arabic
1 entries- أَلْقَى verb (throw with force)
Armenian
1 entries- շպրտել verb (throw with force)
Bulgarian
2 entries- мятам verb (throw with force)
- хвърлям verb (throw with force)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 猛投 verb (throw with force)
- 猛掷 verb (throw with force)
Czech
1 entries- mrštit verb (throw with force)
Dutch
2 entries- smijten verb (throw with force)
- werpen verb (throw with force)
Finnish
2 entries- heittää verb (throw with force)
- paiskata verb (throw with force)
French
1 entries- projeter verb (throw with force)
Friulian
1 entries- slançâ verb (throw with force)
German
1 entries- schleudern verb (throw with force)
Hungarian
3 entries- hajít verb (throw with force)
- lök verb (throw with force)
- vág verb (throw with force)
Icelandic
1 entries- grýta verb (throw with force)
Irish
1 entries- rad verb (throw with force)
Italian
3 entries- lanciare verb (throw with force)
- slanciare verb (throw with force)
- tirare verb (throw with force)
Latin
1 entries- iaciō verb (throw with force)
Macedonian
2 entries- ме́тне verb (throw with force)
- фр́ли verb (throw with force)
Middle English
2 entries- swengen verb (throw with force)
- swyngen verb (throw with force)
Old Irish
1 entries- do·bidci verb (throw with force)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- صالمق verb (throw with force)
Persian
1 entries- شلیک کردن verb (throw with force)
Portuguese
2 entries- arremessar verb (throw with force)
- atirar verb (throw with force)
Russian
4 entries- бро́сить verb (throw with force)
- броса́ть verb (throw with force)
- швырну́ть verb (throw with force)
- швыря́ть verb (throw with force)
Slovak
1 entries- šmariť verb (throw with force)
Spanish
4 entries- arrojar verb (throw with force)
- lanzar verb (throw with force)
- proyectar verb (throw with force)
- tirar verb (throw with force)
Swedish
1 entries- slunga verb (throw with force)
Tetum
1 entries- tuda verb (throw with force)
Turkish
1 entries- fırlatmak verb (throw with force)
Venetan
2 entries- lansar verb (throw with force)
- slansar verb (throw with force)
Zazaki
1 entries- esten verb (throw with force)
Sample sentences
24 total sentences available.
If you hurl a handful of stones, at least one will hit.
Source: tatoeba (2575689)
Don't hurl insults at me, young lady.
Source: tatoeba (5001652)
There, roof and pinnacle the Dardans tear – / death standing near – and hurl them on the foe, / last arms of need, the weapons of despair; / and gilded beams and rafters down they throw, / ancestral ornaments of days ago.
Source: tatoeba (6829441)
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