| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Hurtle.[Websters]
2. To be projected. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To have heaved, chucked or promoted. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To be cobbed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To have slipped, whizzed, evolved or inserted. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To have commenced or postulated. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To have proposed or suggested. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. To have published, floated or interjected. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. To have arranged. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. To have crashed, impacted or banged.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb hurtle.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (hurtle) | 1. Move with or as if with a rushing sound; "The cars hurtled by".[Wordnet]. 2. Make a thrusting forward movement.[Wordnet]. 3. Throw forcefully.[Wordnet]. 4. To meet with violence or shock; to clash; to jostle.[Websters]. 5. To move rapidly; to wheel or rush suddenly or with violence; to whirl round rapidly; to skirmish.[Websters]. 6. To make a threatening sound, like the clash of arms; to make a sound as of confused clashing or confusion; to resound.[Websters]. 7. To move with violence or impetuosity; to whirl; to brandish.[Websters]. 8. To push; to jostle; to hurl.[Websters]. 9. Base verb from the following inflections: hurtling, hurtled, hurtles, hurtler, hurtlers, hurtlingly and hurtledly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
"HURTLED" is a common misspelling or typo for: hurtles. |
Date "HURTLED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1469. (references) |
Specialty Definition: hurtle
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Verb] To clash or run against; to jostle; to skirmish; to meet in shock and encounter; to wheel suddenly. [Not now used.]. | 2: [Verb] To move with violence or impetuosity.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | |
| Wiktionary | 1: [Noun] A clattering sound. 1913, Eden Phillpotts. Widecombe Fair p.26 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. (references) | 2: [Noun] A fast movement in literal or figurative sense. 1975, Wakeman, John. Literary Criticism But 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 newspaper Jamba 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. (references) | 3: [Verb] (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. (references) | 4: [Verb] (intransitive, archaic)To make a threatening sound, like the clash of arms; to make a sound as of confused clashing or confusion; to resound. (references) | 5: [Verb] (intransitive, archaic)To meet with violence or shock; to clash; to jostle. (references) | 6: [Verb] (intransitive, archaic)To push; to jostle; to hurl. (references) | 7: [Verb] (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. (references) |
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| James Hurtle Fisher | 8 | Hurtle Square, Adelaide | 4 | |
| Hurtle Square, Adelaide | 4 | James Hurtle Fisher | 8 | |
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