hurtle
Pronunciation Verb
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Pronunciation Verb
hurtle (hurtles, present participle hurtling; past and past participle hurtled)
- (intransitive) To move rapidly, violently, or without control.
- The car hurtled down the hill at 90 miles per hour.
- Pieces of broken glass hurtled through the air.
- (intransitive, archaic) To meet with violence or shock; to clash; to jostle.
- Together hurtled both their steeds.
- (intransitive, archaic) To make a threatening sound, like the clash of arms; to make a sound as of confused clashing or confusion; to resound.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Ivlivs Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act II, scene ii]:
- The noise of battle hurtled in the air.
- The earthquake sound / Hurtling 'neath the solid ground.
- (transitive) To hurl or fling; to throw hard or violently.
- He hurtled the wad of paper angrily at the trash can and missed by a mile.
- (intransitive, archaic) To push; to jostle; to hurl.
- German: zusammenprallen, zusammenknallen
- German: schleudern, schmeißen
hurtle (plural hurtles)
- A fast movement in literal or figurative sense.
- 1975, John Wakeman, Literary Criticism
- But the war woke me up, I began to move left, and recent events have accelerated that move until it is now a hurtle.
- 2005, June 20, The Guardian
- Jamba has removed from Marlowe's Doctor Faustus all but the barest of essentials - even half its title, leaving us with an 80-minute hurtle through Faustus's four and twenty borrowed years on earth.
- 1975, John Wakeman, Literary Criticism
- A clattering sound.
- 1913, Eden Phillpotts, Widecombe Fair, page 26
- There came a hurtle of wings, a flash of bright feathers, and a great pigeon with slate-grey plumage and a neck bright as an opal, lit on a swaying finial.
- 1913, Eden Phillpotts, Widecombe Fair, page 26
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