hurtle

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hurtle

speed; race; rush; shoot: I watched the horses hurtle down the track.

Not to be confused with:

hurdle – a barrier; problem; obstacle: He jumped over the last hurdle.

hur·tle

(hûr′tl)

v. hur·tled, hur·tling, hur·tles

v.intr.

To move with or as if with great speed: an express train that hurtled past.

v.tr.

To fling with great force; hurl.

[Middle English hurtlen, to collide, frequentative of hurten, to knock against, damage; see hurt.]

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hurtle

(ˈhɜːtəl)

1. to project or be projected very quickly, noisily, or violently

2. (intr) rare to collide or crash

[C13 hurtlen, from hurten to strike; see hurt¹]

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hur•tle

(ˈhɜr tl)

v. -tled, -tling,
n. v.i.

1. to move with great speed.

2. Archaic. to strike together; collide.

v.t.

3. to drive violently; fling; dash.

4. Archaic. clash; collision; clatter.

[1175–1225; Middle English hurtle=hurt(en) (see hurt) + -le -le]

Hurtle

a flock of sheep.

hurtle

Past participle: hurtled
Gerund: hurtling

Imperative
hurtle
hurtle

Present
I hurtle
you hurtle
he/she/it hurtles
we hurtle
you hurtle
they hurtle

Preterite
I hurtled
you hurtled
he/she/it hurtled
we hurtled
you hurtled
they hurtled

Present Continuous
I am hurtling
you are hurtling
he/she/it is hurtling
we are hurtling
you are hurtling
they are hurtling

Present Perfect
I have hurtled
you have hurtled
he/she/it has hurtled
we have hurtled
you have hurtled
they have hurtled

Past Continuous
I was hurtling
you were hurtling
he/she/it was hurtling
we were hurtling
you were hurtling
they were hurtling

Past Perfect
I had hurtled
you had hurtled
he/she/it had hurtled
we had hurtled
you had hurtled
they had hurtled

Future
I will hurtle
you will hurtle
he/she/it will hurtle
we will hurtle
you will hurtle
they will hurtle

Future Perfect
I will have hurtled
you will have hurtled
he/she/it will have hurtled
we will have hurtled
you will have hurtled
they will have hurtled

Future Continuous
I will be hurtling
you will be hurtling
he/she/it will be hurtling
we will be hurtling
you will be hurtling
they will be hurtling

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been hurtling
you have been hurtling
he/she/it has been hurtling
we have been hurtling
you have been hurtling
they have been hurtling

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been hurtling
you will have been hurtling
he/she/it will have been hurtling
we will have been hurtling
you will have been hurtling
they will have been hurtling

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been hurtling
you had been hurtling
he/she/it had been hurtling
we had been hurtling
you had been hurtling
they had been hurtling

Conditional
I would hurtle
you would hurtle
he/she/it would hurtle
we would hurtle
you would hurtle
they would hurtle

Past Conditional
I would have hurtled
you would have hurtled
he/she/it would have hurtled
we would have hurtled
you would have hurtled
they would have hurtled

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Verb	1.	hurtle - move with or as if with a rushing sound; "The cars hurtled by" go, locomote, move, travel - change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically; "How fast does your new car go?"; "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect"; "The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell"; "news travelled fast"
	2.	hurtle - make a thrusting forward movement lunge, hurl, thrust move - move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion; "He moved his hand slightly to the right" dart - move with sudden speed; "His forefinger darted in all directions as he spoke" riposte - make a return thrust; "his opponent riposted"
	3.	hurtle - throw forcefully hurl, cast dash, crash - hurl or thrust violently; "He dashed the plate against the wall"; "Waves were dashing against the rock" precipitate - hurl or throw violently; "The bridge broke and precipitated the train into the river below" throw - propel through the air; "throw a frisbee" sling, catapult - hurl as if with a sling bowl - hurl a cricket ball from one end of the pitch towards the batsman at the other end

hurtle

verb rush, charge, race, shoot, fly, speed, tear, crash, plunge, barrel (along) (informal, chiefly U.S. & Canad.), scramble, spurt, stampede, scoot, burn rubber (informal), rush headlong, go hell for leather (informal) A pretty young girl came hurtling down the stairs.

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hurtle

verb

1. To send through the air with a motion of the hand or arm:

cast, dart, dash, fling, heave, hurl, launch, pitch, shoot, shy, sling, throw, toss.

Informal: fire.

2. To launch with great force:

fire, loose, project, propel, shoot.

Idiom: let fly.

Translations

يَهْوي، يَرْتَطِم

řítit se

farestyrte

rasen

aller à toute allure

òeytast, hendast

precipitarsi sfrecciare

lėkti

brāztiesdrāzties

rase ned

hızla fırlamak/gitmek

使猛冲猛烈碰撞

hurtle

[ˈhɜːtl]

A. VI → precipitarse
to hurtle along → ir como un rayo or a toda velocidad
the car hurtled past → el coche pasó como un rayo or a toda velocidad
the rock hurtled over the cliff → la roca cayó estrepitosamente por el precipicio

B. VT → arrojar (violentamente)

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

hurtle

[ˈhɜː^rt^əl] vi
to hurtle past → passer en trombe
to hurtle down → dégringoler

hurtle along

vt fus → passer à toute allure

hurtle

vi → rasen; the car was hurtling along → das Auto sauste or brauste dahin; it hurtled into the wall → es sauste gegen die Mauer; he came hurtling round the corner → er kam um die Ecke gerast

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hurtle

[ˈhɜːtl]

1. vi → sfrecciare
to hurtle past/down → passare/scendere a razzo
she hurtled down the stairs → si è precipitata giù per le scale

2. vt → scagliare

hurtle

(ˈhəːtl) verb

to move very quickly and violently. The car hurtled down the hill at top speed.

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There was a quick leap, and the Belgian felt a heavy body hurtle onto the rump of his terror-stricken mount.

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Even grown dogs might hurtle him backward or sideways with the impact of their heavy bodies; and backward or sideways he would go, in the air or sliding on the ground, but always with his legs under him and his feet downward to the mother earth.

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It was one of the nights when the storm-wind hurtles over the frozen meadows and black hollows, and moans around the eaves like a lost creature, and drives the snow sharply against the shaking panes.

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Consequently the craft will simply hurtle past, gathering data and taking pictures of Pluto and its moons Charon, Styx, Nix, Kerberos and Hydra.

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Summary: The Premier League continued to hurtle towards its closest three-way finish for years on Wednesday as Chelsea thumped Portsmouth 5-0 away.

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The dark, creepy chambers are home to ghost host King Ludwig, whom you'll encounter as you "hurtle through the darkness of an ice-bound world." DarKastle opened in May at the European-themed Busch Gardens Williamsburg, which hasn't unveiled a new ride worth talking about since Apollo's Chariot in 1999.

Enter DarKastle

The spacecraft will hurtle 80 miles into space, rising vertically and reaching Mach 1 (600 mph) in less than 10 seconds, ultimately traveling at three times the speed of sound.

Branson shoots for the moon

Built specifically for the high-adrenaline sport of downhill (DH to those in the know), mountain bike racing, in which riders hurtle down snowless black diamond-level ski slopes at ridiculous speeds, the bike features an honest-to-goodness transmission in place of the usual gears and derailleur setup.

Honda's downhill racer

In his vernacular, his peculiar perspective, a subway is a "vehicular library." The Cyclone ride on Coney Island is a "loop of ribbon lifted by the breeze." Central Park is a place where "softballs shuttle, Frisbees wobble and epithets hurtle." Rather than generalities on "Rain" and "Morning," which areas amusing as they are common, it might have enhanced his theme to include something on Harlem, the Bronx, of Bed-Stuy.

The Colossus of New York: a City in Thirteen Parts

I am quite prepared to put up with young children - say under 10 - cycling on the pavements for safety reasons, but more often than not it is teenagers and adults who hurtle towards you at 20mph without so much as a ring of a bell to let you know they're there.

Fine by me

There is solace to be had in the knowledge that, in its verb form at least, career is synonymous with its etymological cousin, careen--"to hurtle with an unsteady motion, to sway from side to side, to lurch." Careering can be perilous, not least of all to careerists.