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Definition of "hurtle" []
- To move with or as if with great speed and a rushing noise: an express train that hurtled past. (verb-intransitive)
- To fling with great force; hurl. (verb-transitive)
American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
Use "hurtle" in a sentence
- "Our next hurtle is getting H. Res 111 out of the Rules committee."
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- "It really is a miracle of engineering that anything so huge, so luxurious, so fantastically adapted to the health and comfort of human beings, should be able to "hurtle" (pardon the word) through space."