hurtle
To move very fast, often without control.
hurtle in a sentence
- The sledge hurtled down the icy hill, going faster and faster until it hit a snowdrift.
- Loose shopping trolleys can hurtle across the windy car park at surprising speed.
Try an 11+ style question
Verbal reasoning papers often ask about a word like this.
Which word is closest in meaning to hurtle?
- Acreep
- Bspeed
- Cplod
- Dcrawl
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B: speed. The other three mean the opposite of hurtle.
Which word is most nearly opposite in meaning to hurtle?
- Arace
- Bcrawl
- Czoom
- Dspeed
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B: crawl. The other three mean nearly the same as hurtle.
Words that mean something similar
speed, race, zoom
Words that mean the opposite
crawl, creep, plod
More words about movement & action
- immobile: Not moving or not able to move.
- intercept: To stop or catch something before it reaches where it is going.
- jaunt: A short trip taken for fun.
- jostle: To push and bump against people in a crowd.
- laborious: Needing a lot of hard, slow work.
- languid: Slow, relaxed and without energy.
- leisurely: Slow, relaxed and unhurried.
- limber: Bending and moving easily.
More words to explore
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