HURTLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hurtle mean? 

• HURTLE (verb)
  The verb HURTLE has 3 senses:

1. move with or as if with a rushing sound

2. make a thrusting forward movement

3. throw forcefully

  Familiarity information: HURTLE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HURTLE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they hurtle    ... he / she / it hurtles   
Past simple: hurtled   
Past participle: hurtled   
-ing form: hurtling   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Move with or as if with a rushing sound

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Context example:

The cars hurtled by

Hypernyms (to "hurtle" is one way to...):

go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically)

Sentence frame:

Something is ----ing PP

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make a thrusting forward movement

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

hurl; hurtle; lunge; thrust

Hypernyms (to "hurtle" is one way to...):

move (move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "hurtle"):

dart (move with sudden speed)

riposte (make a return thrust)

Sentence frames:

Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP

Sense 3

Meaning:

Throw forcefully

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

cast; hurl; hurtle

Hypernyms (to "hurtle" is one way to...):

throw (propel through the air)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "hurtle"):

crash; dash (hurl or thrust violently)

precipitate (hurl or throw violently)

catapult; sling (hurl as if with a sling)

bowl (hurl a cricket ball from one end of the pitch towards the batsman at the other end)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Sentence example:

They hurtle the object in the water

 Context examples 

As he hurtled through the air, with giant limbs revolving, the lad's heart was in his mouth; for surely no man ever yet had such a fall and came scathless out of it.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The comet's nucleus will miss Mars by about 82,000 miles (132,000 kilometers), shedding material hurtling at about 35 miles (56 kilometers) per second, relative to Mars and Mars-orbiting spacecraft.

(Mars spacecraft prepare for close comet flyby, NASA)

The others, screaming and clawing, were thrust over the precipice, and went hurtling down, as their prisoners had of old, on to the sharp bamboos six hundred feet below.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Nilson was standing at the wheel, and the Cockney’s hurtling body struck his legs.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

With a cry John seized the branch of a tree, whipped the crutch out of his armpit, and sent that uncouth missile hurtling through the air.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

But when the venerable explorer hurtled by, the data showed that the lightning-associated radio signals didn't match the details of the radio signals produced by lightning here at Earth.

(Juno Solves 39-Year Old Mystery of Jupiter Lightning, NASA)

The thrust from this ejected material is thought to provide the small but steady push that is sending `Oumuamua hurtling out of the Solar System faster than expected — as of 1 June 2018 it is traveling at roughly 114 000 kilometres per hour.

(ESO’s VLT Sees `Oumuamua Getting a Boost, ESO)

The next moment the two mothers separated, and, before they rushed together again, the lynx lashed out at the cub with a huge fore-paw that ripped his shoulder open to the bone and sent him hurtling sidewise against the wall.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The other held the loop of the rope which would release the catch and send the unwieldy missile hurtling through the air.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

From the point the shore curved away, more and more to the south and west, until at last it disclosed a cove within the cove, a little land-locked harbour, the water level as a pond, broken only by tiny ripples where vagrant breaths and wisps of the storm hurtled down from over the frowning wall of rock that backed the beach a hundred feet inshore.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)