hurtle UK /ˈhɜːtl̩/US /ˈhɜɹt(ə)l/verb 7noun 5forms 5 verb7 •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. •(literary, no longer used) 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. •(literary, no longer used) 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. •(literary, no longer used) 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. •(figurative, no longer used) Of two people, etc.: to meet in a shocking or violent encounter; to clash; to jostle. •(literary, no longer used) To make a sound of things clashing or colliding together; to clatter, to rattle; hence, to move with such a sound.The noise of Battell hurtled in the Ayre: / Horsses do neigh, and dying men did grone, / And Ghosts did shrieke and squeale about the streets. — 1599 •(figurative, no longer used) To attack or criticize (someone) verbally or in writing. noun5 •(literary) 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. — 1975 •(literary) An act of colliding with or hitting; a collision. •(literary, figurative) (Violent) disagreement; conflict. •(literary) 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. — 1913 •(no longer used, rare) 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, […] — 1597 formshurtled · hurtling · hurtles · hurtleth · hurtlest