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Hurtle   /hˈərtəl/   Listen
Hurtle

verb
(past & past part. hurtled; pres. part. hurtling)
1.
Move with or as if with a rushing sound.
2.
Make a thrusting forward movement.  Synonyms: hurl, lunge, thrust.
3.
Throw forcefully.  Synonyms: cast, hurl.





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"Hurtle" Quotes from Famous Books



... stuffed up the hole with a bag of straw. The shattered windows are covered with boards in front; then we piled up bricks and nailed other boards behind. Between us and the enemy is a burnt-out house, which rings with the smack of the enemy's bullets as they hurtle against the wall or against the tiles. Opposite that, again, are our trenches, 400 yards away, and practically 400 yards from us also is the enemy's trench, as the line takes a bend there. I lie at nights ready armed, for one never knows ...
— Letters of Lt.-Col. George Brenton Laurie • George Brenton Laurie
... and softened into violet and purple shades. The group of pines on the beach seemed drenched in a sulphurous light and the clarity of their outlines hurt the eye. Like a heavy and compact mass, ready to hurtle down, the foliage of the gardens bent over the crumbling walls. From the mountains came a gusty wind that announced the approaching ...
— The Indian Lily and Other Stories • Hermann Sudermann


Words linked to "Hurtle" :   travel, locomote, thrust, go, precipitate, bowl, hurl, move, cast, riposte, lunge, dart, catapult, dash, sling, throw, crash


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