i Register
In some senses, hurtle is marked as archaic, literary, figuratively, obsolete, poetic. Watch for register when choosing this word.
verb
To propel or throw (something) hard or violently; to fling, to hurl.
He hurtled the wad of paper angrily at the trash can and missed by a mile.
Soone as thoſe glitterand armes he did eſpye, / That vvith their brightneſſe made that darknes light, / His harmefull club he gan to hurtle hye, / And threaten batteill to the Faery knight; […]
To cause (someone or something) to collide with or hit another person or thing; or (two people or things) to collide with or hit each other.
Only in solitude could that strong man give way to his emotions; and at first they rushed forth so confused and stormy, so hurtling one the other, that hours elapsed before he could serenely face the terrible crisis of his position.
To attack or criticize (someone) verbally or in writing.
To move rapidly, violently, or without control, especially in a noisy manner.
The car hurtled down the hill at 90 miles per hour.
Pieces of broken glass hurtled through the air.
Of a person or thing: to collide with or hit another person or thing, especially with force or violence; also, of two people or things: to collide together; to clash.
Yet could not all that force and furie ſhake / The valiant champions, nor their perſons vvound, / Together hurtled both their ſteedes, and brake / Each others necke, the riders lay on ground: / But they (great maſters of vvars dreadfull art) / Pluckt forth their ſvvords and ſoone from earth vp ſtart.
noun
An act of colliding with or hitting; a collision.
I flung closer to his breast, / As sword that, after battle, flings to sheathe; / And, in that hurtle of united souls, / The mystic motions which in common moods / Are shut beyond our sense, broke in on us, […]
A rapid or uncontrolled movement; a dash, a rush.
[T]he war woke me up, I began to move left, and recent events have accelerated that move until it is now a hurtle.
Jamba has removed from [Christopher] Marlowe's Doctor Faustus all but the barest of essentials – even half its title, leaving us with an 80-minute hurtle through Faustus's four and twenty borrowed years on earth.
A sound of clashing or colliding; a clattering, a rattling.
There came a hurtle of wings, a flash of bright feathers, and a great pigeon with slate-grey plumage and a neck bright as an opal, lit on a swaying finial.
(Violent) disagreement; conflict.
noun
Synonym of hurtleberry or whortleberry (“any of several shrubs belonging to the genus Vaccinium; a berry of one of these shrubs”).
Vaccinia nigra, the blacke VVhortle, or Hurtle, is a baſe and lovve tree, or vvoodie plant, bringing foorth many branches of a cubite high, ſet full of ſmall leaues, of a darke greene colour, […]