(intransitive) To move rapidly, violently, or without control.The car hurtled down the hill at 90 miles per hour.Pieces of broken glass hurtled through the air.
(intransitive, archaic) To meet with violence or shock; to clash; to jostle.
FairfaxTogether hurtled both their steeds.
(intransitive, archaic) To make a threatening sound, like the clash of arms; to make a sound as of confused clashing or confusion; to resound.
ShakespeareThe noise of battle hurtled in the air.
Elizabeth BrowningThe earthquake sound Hurtling 'neath the solid ground.
(transitive) To hurl or fling; to throw hard or violently.He hurtled the wad of paper angrily at the trash can and missed by a mile.
1975, Wakeman, John. Literary CriticismBut the war woke me up, I began to move left, and recent events have accelerated that move until it is now a hurtle.
Monday June 20, 2005, The Guardian newspaperJamba has removed from 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.
1913, Eden Phillpotts. Widecombe Fair p.26There 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.
