Synonyms of hurls

hurls

verb

present tense third-person singular of hurl

1

as in vomits

to discharge the contents of the stomach through the mouth

that meal was so gross I thought I was going to hurl

Synonyms & Similar Words

• vomits
• ejects
• heaves
• retches
• pukes
• barfs
• spews
• throws up
• spits up
• gags
• upchucks
• regurgitates
• disgorges
• expels
• loses one's lunch
• tosses one's cookies
• nauseates

2

as in scurries

to proceed or move quickly

a fighter jet hurled through the sky

Synonyms & Similar Words

• scurries
• rushes
• hurries
• trots
• flies
• chases
• drives
• speeds
• travels
• races
• zips
• jumps
• buzzes
• blows
• runs
• scoots
• scuttles
• blasts
• rips
• darts
• whirls
• zooms
• dashes
• shoots
• careens
• whisks
• hurtles
• rustles
• tears
• jogs
• rams
• bowls
• hies
• bolts
• barrels
• hustles
• steps
• hastens
• blazes
• jets
• rockets
• bustles
• cracks (on)
• motors
• breezes
• bundles
• bombs
• belts
• gallops
• beats it
• nips
• pelts
• courses
• steps on it
• cannonballs
• scampers
• humps
• careers
• flits
• makes tracks
• hares
• accelerates
• highballs
• hotfoots (it)
• shakes a leg
• gets a move on
• sprints
• whizzes
• scuds
• overtakes
• outruns
• outstrips
• beetles
• outpaces
• stampedes
• quickens
• streaks
• scuffles
• steps out
• arrows
• beelines
• catches up
• fast-forwards

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• crawls
• drags
• pokes
• lingers
• creeps
• lags
• pokes
• hangs (around or out)
• loiters
• saunters
• shuffles
• dawdles
• ambles
• strolls
• tarries
• dallies
• lumbers
• plods
• decelerates
• slows (down or up)
• dillydallies

3

as in throws

to send through the air especially with a quick forward motion of the arm

hurled snowballs at each other

Synonyms & Similar Words

• throws
• tosses
• flings
• launches
• fires
• casts
• heaves
• slings
• bowls
• lobs
• catapults
• hurtles
• pegs
• pitches
• flips
• dashes
• chucks
• darts
• guns
• lets fly
• ejects
• lofts
• propels
• thrusts
• pelts
• rolls
• passes
• precipitates
• shoots
• rifles
• impels
• hooks
• projects
• bucks

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of hurls

Frances, in a David-versus-Goliath story, picks up a rock and hurls it at Goliath and hits. — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2026

Former Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins hurls a deep ball toward Jefferson in double coverage, and McCardell stops the play. — Alec Lewis, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026

The mathematical problem concerns the Navier-Stokes equations, which govern the flow of fluids—from the whirlpool circling your bathtub’s drain to the turbulent winds El Niño hurls across the North American continent. — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 8 Sep. 2026

An impact therefore hurls high-speed ejecta (fine regolith and rock fragments) across vast distances at bullet-like speeds. — Leonard David, Space.com, 14 Aug. 2026

Whether your 9-to-5 job involves a rare combination of manual record keeping and precarious wilderness travel, or your idea of outdoor recreation includes journaling your day while remaining at the ready for whatever nature hurls at you, the all-new Pen-metheus equips you for it all. — New Atlas, 22 June 2026

The team’s most prominent celebrity fan, filmmaker Spike Lee, hurls trash talk from his courtside seat. — Albert Samaha, Washington Post, 3 June 2026

Theron, meanwhile, hurls herself into the sinewy action sequences that have increasingly been her home turf over the past two decades, flinging herself down hills and into rivers and navigating some precarious rock-climbing terrain. — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 24 Apr. 2026

What hurls him in that direction is that his mother Gertrude (Sheeba Chadha) is going to marry her brother-in-law Claudis (Art Malik). — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 8 Apr. 2026