headlong

1. adverb

a) With the head first or down.

Figures out today show the economy plunging headlong into recession.

b) With an unrestrained forward motion.

2. adjective

a) Precipitous.

“Time is up,” cried another boy, more headlong than head-monitor.

b) Plunging downwards head foremost.

3. verb

To precipitate.

If a stranger be setting his pace and face toward some deep pit, or steep rock — such a precipice as the cliffs of Dover — how do we cry aloud to have him return ? yet in mean time forget the course of our own sinful ignorance, that headlongs us to confusion.