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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
hurtle
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
down
▪ The gulls mewed and the sand shifted and the swan hurtled down and it was easy.
▪ Within seconds of hurtling down the runway the great plane was airborne.
▪ The slightest wind could send him hurtling down towards destruction.
▪ That means getting into Greenwich Park and hurtling down the hill.
▪ This gave me a great sense of freedom - and, just occasionally, I did hurtle down the street at night!
■ VERB
come
▪ The Audi came hurtling over the rise, too, one hubcap spinning away from it as it landed.
▪ Bursting from the trees ahead of him, three black shapes came hurtling towards him over the pine needle floor of the clearing.
send
▪ A neat step-over by Rocastle sent Thomas hurtling in on goal but Rhodes moved sharply off his line to smother the shot.
▪ The slightest wind could send him hurtling down towards destruction.
▪ The last time these two met, Ipswich won 2-0 and sent Norwich hurtling towards relegation.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A few moments later the ferry hurtles past.
▪ It accelerated like one of those old twentieth century water-speed record breakers and hurtled over the water!
▪ Still calling to Williams for a more precise location, Adams hurtled through Pine Ridge village at high speed.
▪ They drove through the brightly lit city streets of Tsimshatsui, and it was like hurtling back to earth through the atmosphere.
▪ This gave me a great sense of freedom - and, just occasionally, I did hurtle down the street at night!
▪ Within seconds of hurtling down the runway the great plane was airborne.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hurtle

Hurtle \Hur"tle\, v. t.

  1. To move with violence or impetuosity; to whirl; to brandish. [Obs.]

    His harmful club he gan to hurtle high.
    --Spenser.

  2. To push; to jostle; to hurl.

    And he hurtleth with his horse adown.
    --Chaucer.

Hurtle

Hurtle \Hur"tle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Hurtled; p. pr. & vb. n. Hurtling.] [OE. hurtlen, freq. of hurten. See Hurt, v. t., and cf. Hurl.]

  1. To meet with violence or shock; to clash; to jostle.

    Together hurtled both their steeds.
    --Fairfax.

  2. To move rapidly; to wheel or rush suddenly or with violence; to whirl round rapidly; to skirmish.

    Now hurtling round, advantage for to take.
    --Spenser.

    Down the hurtling cataract of the ages.
    --R. L. Stevenson.

  3. To make a threatening sound, like the clash of arms; to make a sound as of confused clashing or confusion; to resound.

    The noise of battle hurtled in the air.
    --Shak.

    The earthquake sound Hurtling 'death the solid ground.
    --Mrs. Browning.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
hurtle

early 14c., hurteln, "to crash together; to crash down, knock down," probably frequentative of hurten (see hurt (v.)) in its original sense. Intransitive meaning "to rush, dash, charge" is late 14c. The essential notion in hurtle is that of forcible collision, in hurl that of forcible projection. Related: Hurtled; hurtling.

Wiktionary
hurtle

n. 1 A fast movement in literal or figurative sense. 2 A clattering sound. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To move rapidly, violently, or without control. 2 (context intransitive archaic English) To meet with violence or shock; to clash; to jostle. 3 (context intransitive archaic English) To make a threatening sound, like the clash of arms; to make a sound as of confused clashing or confusion; to resound. 4 (context transitive English) To hurl or fling; to throw hard or violently. 5 (context intransitive archaic English) To push; to jostle; to hurl.

WordNet
hurtle

  1. v. move with or as if with a rushing sound; "The cars hurtled by"

  2. make a thrusting forward movement [syn: lunge, hurl, thrust]

  3. throw forcefully [syn: hurl, cast]

Usage examples of "hurtle".

Two goblins hurtled out in their wake, scratching and biting and both afire from head to foot.

Chamberlain would scarcely have time to read it before the Nazi armies hurtled into Poland at dawn on the morrow - the X Day which still held?

That told the LSO that he had the meatball in sight, confirmed that his aircraft was a Tomcat so that the arrestor cables could be properly adjusted for the hurtling weight of the aircraft, and that his fuel was reading five thousand pounds.

Crewmen on the deck scrambled for safety as the F14, its left wing dragging on steel, spun broadside, snapping the arrestor cables one after another as it hurtled toward a row of A6 Intruders just abaft of the island.

The two incoming MiGs flashed past the damaged Tomcat, hurtling toward the south before beginning a broad, sweeping turn which would bring them in behind Batman and Malibu.

Still hurtling toward the SAM, Batman rolled the Tomcat right until he was canopy down, then brought the stick back and headed for the ground.

Just as they were ready to start a big gum-nut came hurtling down and hit Blinky right on his nose.

Behind, on the parapet of the palace, Bozo stared after the hurtling craft.

The bubbler ripped loose, hurtled away, and impacted on the roof of a monastery half a mile downrange.

Casting before him a cabbalistic incantation that smashed the etheric lattice of the window, and seemed to carry him with it, out of the pavilion he sprang, snatching up as he hurtled through a sword of honed steel from the bench.

The silth had conjured them into the Up-and-Over, where the darkship dagger hurtled faster than light.

No one knew when it would end, because as long as man set hurtling engines on ribbons of steel rail, derailments were inevitable.

Springing to pursuit, The Shadow saw the dwarfish body hurtling to the roof of the next building, two stories below.

And it was these two very ordinary, but utterly irresistible planets, instead of the negative-matter bombs with which the Eich were prepared to cope, which hurtled then along the axis of the immense tube of warships toward Jarnevon.

Instead, each individual vessel was blasting at maximum for the position in space in which it would form one unit of a formation englobing at a distance of light-years the entire Solarian System, and each of those hurtling hundreds of ships was literally combing all circumambient space with its furiously-driven detector beams.