hurtle
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: The verb is derived from Middle English hurtelen, hurtlen (“to cast, hurl, throw; to charge at; to clash in combat, fight; to collide; to injure; to knock down; to propel, push, thrust; to rush; to stumble”) [and other forms], from hurten (“to injure, wound, hurt (physically or figuratively); to damage, impair; to hurt one’s feelings, humiliate; to receive an injury; to collide into; to propel, push, thrust; to stumble”) (see further at English hurt (verb)) + -el-, -elen (frequentative suffix). The English word is analysable as hurt (“(obsolete) to knock; to strike”) + -le (frequentative suffix).
The noun is derived from the verb.
Base: hurt
Affixes: -le
Inflected forms:
form: hurtles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hurtling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hurtled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hurtled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: hurtle
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: hurtle
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: hurtled
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: hurtle
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: hurtlest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: hurtled
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: hurtledst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: hurtles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hurtleth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: hurtled
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: hurtle
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: hurtled
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: hurtle
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: hurtled
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: hurtle
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: hurtling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hurtled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hurtles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To propel or throw (something) hard or violently; to fling, to hurl.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
literary
poetic
transitive
examples: He hurtled the wad of paper angrily at the trash can and missed by a mile.
Soone as thoſe glitterand armes he did eſpye, / That vvith their brightneſſe made that darknes light, / His harmefull club he gan to hurtle hye, / And threaten batteill to the Faery knight; […]
Such a curse on my head, in a manifest dread, / From the hand of your Zeus has been hurtled along!
Away, thou east wind, snarling like a scold! / […] / Now, like sheep-shearer, from some mountain fold, / Thou hurtlest air with twisting, fleecy flakes / Of martial snow, that like a tyrant bold, / His pleasure in his neighbour's vineyard takes, / Nor careth for the wreck that everywhere he makes.
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
literary
poetic
transitive
examples: Only in solitude could that strong man give way to his emotions; and at first they rushed forth so confused and stormy, so hurtling one the other, that hours elapsed before he could serenely face the terrible crisis of his position.
gloss: To attack or criticize (someone) verbally or in writing.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
figuratively
literary
poetic
transitive
gloss: To move rapidly, violently, or without control, especially in a noisy manner.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
literary
poetic
examples: The car hurtled down the hill at 90 miles per hour.
Pieces of broken glass hurtled through the air.
His gorgeous ryder from her loftie ſted / VVould haue caſt dovvne, and trodd in durty myre, / Had not the Gyaunt ſoone her ſuccoured; / VVho all enrag'd vvith ſmart and frantick yre, / Came hurtling in full fiers, and forſt the knight retyre.
[O]ne Herbertus Biſhop of the ſea of Norvvich, hearing of the gangs of good fellovves, that hurtled and buſtled thither, as thicke as it had beene to the ſhrine of Saint Thomas a Becket, or our Ladie of VValſingham, builded a certaine Chappell there for the ſeruice of God, and ſalutation of ſoules.
No sooner were the Gorgons broad awake, than they hurtled upward into the air, brandishing their brass talons, gnashing their horrible tusks, and flapping their huge wings so wildly, that some of the golden feathers were shaken out, and floated down upon the snow.
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
intransitive
literary
poetic
examples: Yet could not all that force and furie ſhake / The valiant champions, nor their perſons vvound, / Together hurtled both their ſteedes, and brake / Each others necke, the riders lay on ground: / But they (great maſters of vvars dreadfull art) / Pluckt forth their ſvvords and ſoone from earth vp ſtart.
gloss: To make a sound of things clashing or colliding together; to clatter, to rattle; hence, to move with such a sound.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
intransitive
literary
poetic
examples: 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.
Now the Storm begins to lovver, / (Haſte, the loom of Hell prepare,) / Iron-ſleet of arrovvy ſhovver / Hurtles in the darken'd air.
[T]he infantry / Deliberately with slow and steady step / Advanced; the bow-strings twang'd, and arrows hiss'd, / And javelins hurtled by.
The greater number abandon their untenable position of hardihood, and seek a shelter when the terrible storm hurtleth in the heavens, and they see its dismal preparation.
[D]ownward rifting / Mountain rocks to valley swards, / There to meet the earthquake sound / Hurtling 'neath the hollow ground!— […]
A rushing hiss follows, and the rain hurtles through the branches, driving so horizontally as to pass overhead.
gloss: Of two people, etc.: to meet in a shocking or violent encounter; to clash; to jostle.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
figuratively
intransitive
literary
poetic
gloss: An act of colliding with or hitting; a collision.
pos: noun
tags: countable
literary
poetic
examples: I flung closer to his breast, / As sword that, after battle, flings to sheathe; / And, in that hurtle of united souls, / The mystic motions which in common moods / Are shut beyond our sense, broke in on us, […]
gloss: A rapid or uncontrolled movement; a dash, a rush.
pos: noun
tags: also
countable
figuratively
literary
poetic
examples: [T]he war woke me up, I began to move left, and recent events have accelerated that move until it is now a hurtle.
Jamba has removed from [Christopher] 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.
gloss: A sound of clashing or colliding; a clattering, a rattling.
pos: noun
tags: countable
literary
poetic
examples: 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.
gloss: (Violent) disagreement; conflict.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
literary
poetic
uncountable
Derived words: hurtler
hurtlingly
hurtling
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