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How to pronounce “hurdle”
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Pronunciation guide for hurdle
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of hurdle with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Adam Grant: What frogs in hot water can teach us about thinking again
Rethinking isn't a hurdle in every part of our lives.
- Definition summary
- (athletics, equestrianism) An artificial barrier, variously constructed, over which athletes or horses jump in a race.
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How to pronounce hurdle
Adam Grant: What frogs in hot water can teach us about thinking again
Rethinking isn't a hurdle in every part of our lives.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “hurdle”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (athletics, equestrianism) An artificial barrier, variously constructed, over which athletes or horses jump in a race.
- (figuratively) An obstacle, real or perceived, physical or abstract.
- A movable frame of wattled twigs, osiers, or withes and stakes, or sometimes of iron, used for enclosing land, for folding sheep and cattle, for gates, etc.; also, in fortification, used as revetments, and for other purposes.
- (UK, historical) A sled or crate on which criminals were drawn to the place of execution.
- (chess) A piece that is jumped over by a hopper piece.
- [Verb]
- To jump over something while running.
- To compete in the track and field events of hurdles (e.g. high hurdles).
- To overcome an obstacle.
- To hedge, cover, make, or enclose with hurdles.
- (chess, of a hopper piece) To jump over another piece without capturing it.
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