hurtle

Plural: hurtles

Verb

Verb Forms: hurtled, hurtling, hurtles

• To move or be thrown with great speed and force.
• move with or as if with a rushing sound
  • "The cars hurtled by"
• make a thrusting forward movement
• throw forcefully
• To propel or throw (something) hard or violently; to fling, to hurl.
• To cause (someone or something) to collide with or hit another person or thing; or (two people or things) to collide with or hit each other.
• To attack or criticize (someone) verbally or in writing.
• To move rapidly, violently, or without control, especially in a noisy manner.
• Of a person or thing: to collide with or hit another person or thing, especially with force or violence; also, of two people or things: to collide together; to clash.
• To make a sound of things clashing or colliding together; to clatter, to rattle; hence, to move with such a sound.
• Of two people, etc.: to meet in a shocking or violent encounter; to clash; to jostle.

Noun

• An act of colliding with or hitting; a collision.
• A rapid or uncontrolled movement; a dash, a rush.
• A sound of clashing or colliding; a clattering, a rattling.
• (Violent) disagreement; conflict.
• Synonym of hurtleberry or whortleberry (“any of several shrubs belonging to the genus Vaccinium; a berry of one of these shrubs”).

Examples

• He hurtled the wad of paper angrily at the trash can and missed by a mile.
• Pieces of broken glass hurtled through the air.
• The car hurtled down the hill at 90 miles per hour.
• The high-scoring word seemed to hurtle across the Words With Friends board, leaving chaos behind.

Synonyms

cast, hurl, lunge, thrust, bung, chuck, chunk, cook, dash, dump, feck, fling, heave, hield, hightail, hoy, huck, hurt, hurtle, hurtleberry, jerk, launch, lob, move quickly, peck, peg, pick, pitch, precipitate, project, quoit, shy, skedaddle, skew, slight, sling, thrill, throw, toss, traject, warp, whang, whip, whop, whortleberry, wing

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