Usually means: Rush forward with great speed.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word hurtle:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. hurtle: Merriam-Webster
  2. hurtle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hurtle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hurtle: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hurtle: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hurtle, hurtle: Wordnik
  7. hurtle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. hurtle: Wiktionary
  9. hurtle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hurtle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hurtle: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Hurtle, hurtle: Dictionary.com
  13. hurtle: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. hurtle: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Hurtle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. hurtle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. hurtle: Rhymezone
  18. Hurtle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. hurtle: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. hurtle: FreeDictionary.org
  21. hurtle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. hurtle: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. hurtle: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hurtle: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hurtle: Idioms

(Note: See hurtled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive, archaic)
verb:  To propel or throw (something) hard or violently; to fling, to hurl.
verb:  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.
verb:  (figuratively) To attack or criticize (someone) verbally or in writing.
verb:  (intransitive)
verb:  To move rapidly, violently, or without control, especially in a noisy manner.
verb:  (archaic)
verb:  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.
verb:  To make a sound of things clashing or colliding together; to clatter, to rattle; hence, to move with such a sound.
verb:  (figuratively) Of two people, etc.: to meet in a shocking or violent encounter; to clash; to jostle.
noun:  (countable) An act of colliding with or hitting; a collision.
noun:  (countable, also figuratively) A rapid or uncontrolled movement; a dash, a rush.
noun:  (countable) A sound of clashing or colliding; a clattering, a rattling.
noun:  (uncountable, figuratively) (Violent) disagreement; conflict.
noun:  (obsolete, rare) Synonym of hurtleberry or whortleberry (“any of several shrubs belonging to the genus Vaccinium; a berry of one of these shrubs”)

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