hurtle

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈhɜːtl̩/
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• General-American: /ˈhɜɹt(ə)l/
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• General-American: [-ɾ(ə)l]
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• rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)təl
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• homophone: hurdle (t/d-flapping dialects)
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• CMU ARPABET: HH ER1 T AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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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.

Possibly a clipping of hurtleberry, from Middle English hurtil-beri (“bilberry or blue whortleberry (Vaccinium myrtillus); berry of this shrub”); further etymology unknown, compare Middle English horten, hurten (“bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus)”), and Old English horte (“bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus)”).

See hurdle.

59 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: въ́ркам (vǎ́rkam) — to propel or throw (something) hard or violently — see also fling, hurl
• Finnish: viskata — to propel or throw (something) hard or violently — see also fling, hurl
• German: schleudern — to propel or throw (something) hard or violently — see also fling, hurl
• German: schmeißen — to propel or throw (something) hard or violently — see also fling, hurl
• Italian: menàre — to propel or throw (something) hard or violently — see also fling, hurl
• Macedonian: фр́ли (fŕli) — to propel or throw (something) hard or violently — see also fling, hurl
• Macedonian: ме́тне (métne) — to propel or throw (something) hard or violently — see also fling, hurl
• Middle English: hurtelen — to propel or throw (something) hard or violently — see also fling, hurl
• Middle English: hurlen — to propel or throw (something) hard or violently — see also fling, hurl
• Finnish: törmäyttää — 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
• Macedonian: се су́дри (se súdri) — 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
• Finnish: soimata — to attack or criticize (someone) verbally or in writing
• Macedonian: пре́кори (prékori) — to attack or criticize (someone) verbally or in writing
• Bulgarian: профучавам (profučavam) — to move rapidly, violently, or without control
• Chinese Mandarin: 飛馳 /飞驰 (fēichí) — to move rapidly, violently, or without control
• Chinese Mandarin: 疾馳 /疾驰 (jíchí) — to move rapidly, violently, or without control
• Czech: hnát se — to move rapidly, violently, or without control
• Czech: pádit — to move rapidly, violently, or without control
• Czech: řítit se — to move rapidly, violently, or without control
• Finnish: heittelehtiä — to move rapidly, violently, or without control
• Finnish: syöksyä — to move rapidly, violently, or without control
• French: foncer — to move rapidly, violently, or without control
• French: s'élancer — to move rapidly, violently, or without control
• German: fliegen — to move rapidly, violently, or without control
• German: rasen — to move rapidly, violently, or without control
• German: sausen — to move rapidly, violently, or without control
• German: schleudern — to move rapidly, violently, or without control
• Italian: rovinàre — to move rapidly, violently, or without control
• Japanese: 突進する (tosshin suru) — to move rapidly, violently, or without control
• Latin: iaculor — to move rapidly, violently, or without control
• Latin: jaculor — to move rapidly, violently, or without control
• Macedonian: се вту́рне (se vtúrne) — to move rapidly, violently, or without control
• Macedonian: ју́рне (júrne) — to move rapidly, violently, or without control
• Macedonian: вле́та (vléta) — to move rapidly, violently, or without control
• Macedonian: про́фучи (prófuči) — to move rapidly, violently, or without control
• Māori: parahutihuti — to move rapidly, violently, or without control
• Middle English: hurtelen — to move rapidly, violently, or without control
• Russian: мча́ться (mčátʹsja) — to move rapidly, violently, or without control
• Russian: нести́сь (nestísʹ) — to move rapidly, violently, or without control
• Russian: донести́сь (donestísʹ) — to move rapidly, violently, or without control
• Russian: пронести́сь (pronestísʹ) — to move rapidly, violently, or without control
• Russian: снести́сь (snestísʹ) — to move rapidly, violently, or without control
• Spanish: barajustar — to move rapidly, violently, or without control
• Finnish: törmätä — of a person or thing: to collide with or hit another person or thing, especially with force or violence
• Macedonian: се су́дри (se súdri) — of a person or thing: to collide with or hit another person or thing, especially with force or violence
• Macedonian: се у́дри (se údri) — of a person or thing: to collide with or hit another person or thing, especially with force or violence
• Bulgarian: гръ́мот (grǎ́mot) — to make a sound of things clashing or colliding together; to move with such a sound — see also clatter, rattle
• Finnish: rymistellä — to make a sound of things clashing or colliding together; to move with such a sound — see also clatter, rattle
• German: dröhnen — to make a sound of things clashing or colliding together; to move with such a sound — see also clatter, rattle
• German: dumpf tönen — to make a sound of things clashing or colliding together; to move with such a sound — see also clatter, rattle
• German: grummeln — to make a sound of things clashing or colliding together; to move with such a sound — see also clatter, rattle
• Macedonian: та́тни (tátni) — to make a sound of things clashing or colliding together; to move with such a sound — see also clatter, rattle
• Bulgarian: сблъсквам се (sblǎskvam se) — of two people, etc.: to meet in a shocking or violent encounter — see also clash, jostle
• Finnish: ottaa yhteen — of two people, etc.: to meet in a shocking or violent encounter — see also clash, jostle
• German: zusammenknallen — of two people, etc.: to meet in a shocking or violent encounter — see also clash, jostle
• German: zusammenprallen — of two people, etc.: to meet in a shocking or violent encounter — see also clash, jostle
• Macedonian: се су́дри (se súdri) — of two people, etc.: to meet in a shocking or violent encounter — see also clash, jostle
• Middle English: hurtelen — of two people, etc.: to meet in a shocking or violent encounter — see also clash, jostle
• Middle English: hurlen — of two people, etc.: to meet in a shocking or violent encounter — see also clash, jostle