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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 .
- 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 through Faustus's four and twenty borrowed years on earth.
- A clattering sound.
- 1913, Eden Phillpotts. Widecombe Fair p.26
- :There came a 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.
verb (hurtl, ed)
- (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.
- (context, intransitive, archaic)To meet with violence or shock; to clash; to jostle.
- (context, intransitive, archaic)To make a threatening sound, like the clash of arms; to make a sound as of confused clashing or confusion; to resound.
- (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.
- (context, intransitive, archaic)To push; to jostle; to hurl.
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