hurtle

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Swiss and Americans -- hurtle themselves down an impossibly icy course.

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

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  • My main hurtle was how to shape the garment with out making it super advanced project. —  crochet by faye
  • Grade 7: hurtle, warp, habitat, utilize, glucose, thereupon, tabulate, fancywork, sequoia, escalator —  Latest Articles
  • Swiss and Americans -- hurtle themselves down an impossibly icy course. —  CANOE Travel Features
  • He sang of "tuh-hurtle-dovin '" and "ah-all your hugs and kisses". —  Expecting Rain
  • May your Son hurtle into our lives and explode all the imposters. —  nothing new under the sun...
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hurtle:   hurtled ·  hurtling
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Etymologies (3)

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

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  1. from Middle English hurtlen, hurtelen, sometimes hortelen, knock, dash against, dash, throw, hurl; intransitive, dash, rush, or fall with violence; freq. of hurten, dash against, etc., hurt; contr. hurlen, dash, hurl: see hurt and hurl.
  2. A variant, in a fig. use, of whurtle, whortle, a whortleberry: see whortle.
 

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