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hurry /ˈhʌri /verb (hurries, hurrying, hurried) [no object]1Move or act with great haste: we’d better hurry servants hurried around...- They reached the dining hall and the servant hurried ahead to push open the double doors for Cassara.
- The two guards walked into the room, with servants hurrying back and forth.
- Servants bustled around, hurrying to do his bidding because he had the right to lop off their heads if he had the mind to.
1.1 (often in imperative hurry up) Do something more quickly: hurry up and finish your meal...- She's been pushing her solicitor to hurry up and get the divorce papers served.
- Anyway, I hurried up and rushed out of the house with Gina pushing me all the way.
- Come on boys, hurry up and finish your food, we're closing in a minute.
1.2 [with object] Cause to move with haste: she hurried him across the landing...- The sooner you do that the sooner we can make a quick decision and hurry you on your way.
- In one swift move he gathered his brother into his arms and hurried him back into the house.
- We didn't talk for long - whoever she was with was hurrying her along (so mid-nineties) but there was something about her which made me worry.
Synonyms hustle, hasten, push (on), urge (on), drive on, spur on, goad, prod informal gee up 1.3 [with object] Do or finish (something) quickly or too quickly: formalities were hurried over...- After a few minutes hurried consultation, they rushed us into the operating theatre.
- But he is inexperienced in big meets and tends to hurry his stroke when pressed.
- Another factor pushed them to hurry the project: the need to get their ducks in a row before they ran out of time.
Synonyms quick, fast, swift, rapid, speedy, brisk, hasty, hurrying, expeditious, breakneck; cursory, perfunctory, brief, short, fleeting, passing, flying, superficial literary fleet, rathe hasty, rushed, speedy, quick; rash, impetuous, impulsive, reckless, precipitate, precipitous, incautious, imprudent, spur-of-the-moment, premature rare temerarious noun [mass noun]1Great haste: in my hurry to leave I knocked over a pile of books...- Before the gold rush, the only hurry was to condemn.
- The hustle and hurry of the job persist in a surreal atmosphere of expectation and denial.
- The usual hurry to get to work, usual rush to beat the peak time traffic, and usual eagerness to be part of the rat race.
Synonyms haste, flurry, bustle, confusion, commotion, hubbub, hustle, urgency, agitation, turmoil; rush, race, scramble, scurry; speed, swiftness, rapidity, quickness literary fleetness, celerity archaic hurry-scurry, pother 1.1 [with negative and in questions] A need for haste; urgency: there’s no hurry to get back...- It just seems that there is no hurry and no urgency.
- But even though the advisers would have loved it to be done in the next 10 minutes, George said, ‘What's the hurry?’
- So now the party's frantically backpedalling: good heavens, we know we said you need congressional approval, but what's the hurry?
PhrasesOriginLate 16th century (as a verb): imitative. Rhymescurry, dhurrie, flurry, Murray, scurry, slurry, surrey, worry |