hurtle
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tl verb (used without object)
1.
to rush violently; move with great speed: The car hurtled down the highway.
2.
to move or go noisily or resoundingly, as with violent or rapid motion: The sound was deafening, as tons of snow hurtled down the mountain.
3.
Archaic. to strike together or against something; collide.
verb (used with object)
4.
to drive violently; fling; dash.
5.
Archaic. to dash against; collide with.
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noun
6.
Archaic. clash; collision; shock; clatter.
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| —vb | |
| 1. | to project or be projected very quickly, noisily, or violently |
| 2. | rare (intr) to collide or crash |
| [C13 hurtlen, from hurten to strike; see | |
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Word Origin & History
hurtle
early 13c., hurteln, probably frequentative of hurten (see hurt). The essential notion in hurtle is that of forcible collision, in hurl that of forcible projection.
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Example sentences
In the lack of anything to hurtle past, speed had become an abstract, reduced to time and distance measures on a laser gun.
As they flee, two cars hurtle down a nearby dirt road in the opposite direction-straight at the tornado.
There are moments when it seems to hurtle, almost out of control, across an extraordinary range of fact and thought.
And when its characters hurtle though space, they do it with breathtaking energy.
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