Hurl vs Smash - What's the difference?
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To throw (something) with force.
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To utter (harsh or derogatory speech), especially at its target.
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To participate in the sport of hurling.
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(slang) To vomit.
(obsolete) To twist or turn.
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A throw, especially a violent throw; a fling.
The act of vomiting.
(hurling) The act of hitting the sliotar with the hurley.
(Ulster) (car) ride
(obsolete) tumult; riot; hurly-burly
(obsolete) A table on which fibre is stirred and mixed by beating with a bow spring.
The sound of a violent impact; a violent striking together.
(British, colloquial) A traffic accident.
(colloquial, entertainment) Something very successful.
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(tennis) A very hard overhead shot hit sharply downward.
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(colloquial, archaic) bankruptcy
To break (something brittle) violently.
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(figuratively) To ruin completely and suddenly.
(figuratively) To defeat overwhelmingly.
(US) To deform through continuous pressure.
To be destroyed by being smashed.
(transitive, slang, vulgar, of a man) To have sexual intercourse with.
In intransitive terms the difference between hurl and smash
is that hurl is to participate in the sport of hurling while smash is to be destroyed by being smashed.As verbs the difference between hurl and smash
is that hurl is to throw (something) with force while smash is to break (something brittle) violently.As nouns the difference between hurl and smash
is that hurl is a throw, especially a violent throw; a fling while smash is the sound of a violent impact; a violent striking together.hurl
English
Verb
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- I was standing on the edge of the conning-tower, when a heavy palm suddenly struck me between the shoulders and hurled me forward into space. The drop to the triangular deck forward of the conning-tower might easily have broken a leg for me, or I might have slipped off onto the deck and rolled overboard; but fate was upon my side, as I was only slightly bruised.
- Tarzan on his part never lost an opportunity to show that he fully reciprocated his foster father's sentiments, and whenever he could safely annoy him or make faces at him or hurl insults upon him from the safety of his mother's arms, or the slender branches of the higher trees, he did so.
- The gangs hurled abuse at each other.
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- Pass me the bucket; I've got to hurl .
- hurled or crooked feet
Noun
(en noun)- He managed a hurl of 50.3 metres.
- A hurl of abuse.
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smash
English
Noun
(smashes)- I could hear the screech of the brakes, then the horrible smash of cars colliding.
- The driver and two passengers were badly injured in the smash .
- This new show of mine is sure to be a smash .
- Soundcheck for the band, today, takes place at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. It is late afternoon and while the arena's 17,000 outdoor seats are still empty the four members of Mumford & Sons – prospering British folk band, in the middle of a long tour of Australia, the US and the UK, their newly released album Babel a smash on all fronts – wander to centre stage.
- A smash may not be as pretty as a good half volley, but it can still win points.
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Synonyms
* (sound of a violent impact ): crash * (colloquial: traffic accident ): crash * (colloquial: something very successful ): smash hitVerb
(es)- Now, I still think that for this box of matches to have escaped the wear of time for immemorial years was a strange, and for me, a most fortunate thing. Yet oddly enough I found here a far more unlikely substance, and that was camphor. I found it in a sealed jar, that, by chance, I supposed had been really hermetically sealed. I fancied at first the stuff was paraffin wax, and smashed the jar accordingly. But the odor of camphor was unmistakable.
High and wet, passage=Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale.