Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To move or act with speed or haste. synonym: speed.
- intransitive verb To cause to move or act with speed or haste.
- intransitive verb To cause to move or act with undue haste; rush.
- intransitive verb To speed the progress or completion of; expedite.
- noun Activity or motion that is often unduly hurried; haste: synonym: haste.
- noun The need or wish to hurry; a condition of urgency.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of hurrying.
- noun Excessive haste; precipitation; hence, agitation; confusion.
- noun A timber staging with spouts running from it, used in loading vessels with coal.
- noun In dram, music, a tremolando passage for violins or tympani in connection with an exciting situation.
- noun Synonyms Haste (see hasten, v. i.), flurry, flutter.
- 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.
- noun In physical, a proposed unit of acceleration; an acceleration of one foot per second per second.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of hurrying in motion or business; pressure; urgency; bustle; confusion.
- intransitive verb To move or act with haste; to proceed with celerity or precipitation.
- intransitive verb [Colloq.] to make haste.
- transitive verb To hasten; to impel to greater speed; to urge on.
- transitive verb To impel to precipitate or thoughtless action; to urge to confused or irregular activity.
- transitive verb To cause to be done quickly.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Rushed action.
- noun Urgency.
- noun sports 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. - verb To do things quickly.
- verb Often with
up , tospeed up the rate of doing something.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a condition of urgency making it necessary to hurry
- verb move very fast
- verb urge to an unnatural speed
- verb act or move at high speed
- noun the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner
- noun overly eager speed (and possible carelessness)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2003
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She felt as though she must scream out to him to hurry -- _hurry_!
The Hermit of Far End Margaret Pedler
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Behind them, her hands clasped to her breast -- crying out to them to hurry, _hurry_ -- stood Peggy
The Hunted Woman James Oliver Curwood 1903
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I had slowed down so much myself that the word hurry had disappeared from my vocabulary.
Healed by Horses Carole Fletcher 2005
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I had slowed down so much myself that the word hurry had disappeared from my vocabulary.
Healed by Horses Carole Fletcher 2005
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I had slowed down so much myself that the word hurry had disappeared from my vocabulary.
Healed by Horses Carole Fletcher 2005
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I had slowed down so much myself that the word hurry had disappeared from my vocabulary.
Healed by Horses Carole Fletcher 2005
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What does have an effect on young females in a hurry is the language being thrown at them right and left.
Why I Hate the Booth Babe Story, a Guest Editorial by Holly A. 2010
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What does have an effect on young females in a hurry is the language being thrown at them right and left.
Why I Hate the Booth Babe Story, a Guest Editorial by Holly A. 2010
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