English
Pronunciation
(Received Pronunciation|UK) IPA|/h��tl/, SAMPA|/h3:tl/
(General American|US) IPA|/h�tl/, SAMPA|/h3`tl/
Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-��(r)t�l|-��(r)t�l
Verb
en-verb|hurtl|ed
- intransitiveTo 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.
- context|intransitive|archaicTo meet with violence or shock; to clash; to jostle.
- context|intransitive|archaicTo make a threatening sound, like the clash of arms; to make a sound as of confused clashing or confusion; to resound.
- transitiveTo hurl or fling; to throw hard or violently.
#:He hurtled the wad of paper angrily at the trash can and missed by a mile.
- context|intransitive|archaicTo push; to jostle; to hurl.
Noun
en-noun|-
#A fast movement in literal or figurative sense.
#*1975, Wakeman, John. 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.
#*Monday June 20, 2005, The Guardian newspaper
#*: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.
#A clattering sound.
#*1913, Eden Phillpotts. Widecombe Fair p.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.
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