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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To move with or as if with great speed and a rushing noise: an express train that hurtled past.
  2. v. To fling with great force; hurl.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To dash, push, or knock violently; throw or hurl.
  2. To move about with violence or impetuosity; whirl round; brandish.
  3. To rush violently and noisily; move rapidly and impetuously; go swiftly with a whirring, clashing, or clattering sound.
  4. n. A pimple or wart.

Wiktionary

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

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To meet with violence or shock; to clash; to jostle.
  2. v. To move rapidly; to wheel or rush suddenly or with violence; to whirl round rapidly; to skirmish.
  3. v. To make a threatening sound, like the clash of arms; to make a sound as of confused clashing or confusion; to resound.
  4. v. obsolete To move with violence or impetuosity; to whirl; to brandish.
  5. v. To push; to jostle; to hurl.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. make a thrusting forward movement
  2. v. move with or as if with a rushing sound
  3. v. throw forcefully

Etymologies

  1. Middle English hurtlen, to collide, frequentative of hurten, to knock against, damage; see hurt. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. skirmish
  2. resound
  1. whirl
  2. brandish
  1. push
  2. jostle
  1. hurl
  2. collide
  1. clash
  2. clatter
  1. rush
  2. project
  1. throw

hypernyms (4)

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  1. locomote
  1. travel
  1. move
  1. go

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  1. flash-bang
  2. riot-control
  3. misstep
  4. frag
  1. shock-proof
  2. casualty-producing
  3. smoke-white
  4. well-thrown
  1. 40-millimeter
  2. potato-masher
  3. bottle-shaped
  4. hand-thrown
  1. clumsy-looking
  2. hairspray
  3. 50-mm
  4. 40-mm
  1. derailments
  2. sixth-grade
  3. whish
  4. earful
  1. quasar
  2. tireder
  3. clock-mender

rhymes (6)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Myrtle
  1. fertile
  1. infertile
  1. mirtle
  1. myrtle
  1. turtle

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  1. hurl

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  • seanahan I've heard it used a number of times in an astronomical context. May 15, 2009

  • bilby Might just be sportswriter hyperbole. May 14, 2009

  • yarb Interesting; I've not seen that transitive use of it before. May 13, 2009

  • bilby "A couple of hours after that 6-4 loss, the Angels suffered a loss much more painful and lasting. A van driven by Andrew Thomas Gallo, a 22-year-old Riverside resident, ran a red light at the Fullerton intersection of Lemon and Orangethorpe and slammed the two-door Eclipse in which Adenhart was a passenger, hurtling it against a telephone pole."
    - Tom Singer, Angels' Adenhart killed in accident mlb.com, 9 April 2009.
    May 13, 2009

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