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Date: 1200-1300
Origin: hurt

hurtle

 verb
     
hur‧tle [intransitive always + adverb/preposition]
if something, especially something big or heavy, hurtles somewhere, it moves or falls very fast:
All of a sudden, a car came hurtling round the corner.
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