Hurry

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • verb-intransitive. To move or act with speed or haste.
  • v. To cause to move or act with speed or haste: hurried the children to school.
  • v. To cause to move or act with undue haste; rush: was hurried into marriage.
  • v. To speed the progress or completion of; expedite. See Synonyms at speed.
  • n. The act or an instance of hurrying; hastened progress.
  • n. Activity or motion that is often unduly hurried; haste. See Synonyms at haste.
  • n. The need or wish to hurry; a condition of urgency: in no hurry to leave.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Rushed action.
  • n. Urgency.
  • n. In American football, an incidence of a defensive player forcing the quarterback to act faster than the quarterback was prepared to, resulting in a failed offensive play.
  • v. To do things quickly.
  • v. Often with up, to speed up the rate of doing something.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To hasten; to impel to greater speed; to urge on.
  • v. To impel to precipitate or thoughtless action; to urge to confused or irregular activity.
  • v. To cause to be done quickly.
  • verb-intransitive. To move or act with haste; to proceed with celerity or precipitation.
  • n. The act of hurrying in motion or business; pressure; urgency; bustle; confusion.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To hasten; urge forward or onward; impel to greater rapidity of movement or action.
  • To impel to violent or thoughtless action; urge to confused or imprudent activity.
  • To draw, as a corf or wagon, in a coal-mine.
  • Synonyms Hasten, Hurry (see hasten, v. i.); precipitate.
  • To flurry.
  • To move or act with haste.
  • To move or act with undue haste or with precipitation.
  • Synonyms Hasten, Hurry. See hasten, v. i.
  • n. The act of hurrying.
  • n. Excessive haste; precipitation; hence, agitation; confusion.
  • n. A timber staging with spouts running from it, used in loading vessels with coal.
  • n. In dram, music, a tremolando passage for violins or tympani in connection with an exciting situation.
  • n. Synonyms Haste (see hasten, v. i.), flurry, flutter.
  • n. In physical, a proposed unit of acceleration; an acceleration of one foot per second per second.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a condition of urgency making it necessary to hurry
  • v. move very fast
  • v. urge to an unnatural speed
  • v. act or move at high speed
  • n. the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner
  • n. overly eager speed (and possible carelessness)
  • Verb Form
    hurried    hurries    hurrying   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    urgency    press    urge    exhort    urge on    act    move   
    Cross Reference
    hasten    haste    hurry up   
    Variant
    hurried   
    Form
    in a hurry   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    accelerate    expedite    hasten    urge    precipitate    quicken    haste    speed    dispatch    pressure   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Curry    Murray    Murree    Surrey    Urey    Uri    blurry    burry    currie    curry   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    haste    agitation    turmoil    fuss    bustle    excitement    commotion    urgency    eagerness    stir