Plunge vs Hurtle - What's the difference?

In transitive terms the difference between plunge and hurtle

is that plunge is to thrust into water, or into any substance that is penetrable; to immerse while hurtle is to hurl or fling; to throw hard or violently.

In intransitive terms the difference between plunge and hurtle

is that plunge is to pitch or throw one's self headlong or violently forward, as a horse does while hurtle is to move rapidly, violently, or without control.

plunge

English

Noun

(en noun)

the act of plunging or submerging

a dive, leap, rush, or pitch into (into water)

to take the water with a plunge

plunge in the sea

(figuratively) the act of pitching or throwing one's self headlong or violently forward, like an unruly horse

(slang) heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous speculation

(obsolete) an immersion in difficulty, embarrassment, or distress; the condition of being surrounded or overwhelmed; a strait; difficulty

Verb

(plung)

(label) To thrust into water, or into any substance that is penetrable; to immerse.

To cast or throw into some thing, state, condition or action.

To baptize by immersion.

(label) To dive, leap or rush (into water or some liquid); to submerge one's self.

To fall or rush headlong into some thing, action, state or condition.

, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=The day was cool and snappy for August, and the Rise all green with a lavish nature. Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet:

(label) To pitch or throw one's self headlong or violently forward, as a horse does.

* (Joseph Hall) (1574-1656)

some wild colt, which flings and plunges

To bet heavily and with seeming recklessness on a race, or other contest; in an extended sense, to risk large sums in hazardous speculations.

To entangle or embarrass (mostly used in past participle).

* (Thomas Browne) (1605-1682)

Plunged and gravelled with three lines of Seneca.

To overwhelm, overpower.

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hurtle

English

Verb

(hurtl)

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.

(archaic) To meet with violence or shock; to clash; to jostle.

* Fairfax

Together hurtled both their steeds.

(archaic) To make a threatening sound, like the clash of arms; to make a sound as of confused clashing or confusion; to resound.

* Shakespeare

The noise of battle hurtled in the air.

* Elizabeth Browning

The earthquake sound / Hurtling 'neath the solid ground.

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.

(archaic) To push; to jostle; to hurl.

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 hurtle .

* 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 hurtle through Faustus's four and twenty borrowed years on earth.

A clattering sound.

* 1913 , Eden Phillpotts. Widecombe Fair p.26

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.

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