Hurry definition
To hurry is defined as to rush, move quickly or do something faster than is comfortable.
An example of hurry is to run to catch the bus.
An example of hurry is to try to finish your homework quickly, making lots of mistakes.
verb
(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.
noun
(intransitive) To do things quickly.
He's hurrying because he's late.
verb
(intransitive) Often with up, to speed up the rate of doing something.
If you don't hurry you won't finish on time.
verb
To cause to be done quickly.
verb
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To hasten; to impel to greater speed; to urge on.
verb
To impel to precipitate or thoughtless action; to urge to confused or irregular activity.
verb
The definition of hurry is a feeling of urgency.
An example of a hurry is a person's state of mind as they try to get to work on time; in a hurry to go to work.
noun
To move or act with haste; move faster than is comfortable or natural.
verb
A hurrying or being hurried; rush; urgency.
noun
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Eagerness to do, act, go, etc. quickly.
noun
Rushed action.
Why are you in such a big hurry?
noun
To cause to move or act with undue haste; rush.
Was hurried into marriage.
verb
To speed the progress or completion of; expedite.
Hurried the delivery of the product.
verb
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Activity or motion that is often unduly hurried; haste.
I forgot my gloves in my hurry to catch the bus.
noun
The need or wish to hurry; a condition of urgency.
In no hurry to leave.
noun
To cause to move or act more rapidly or too rapidly; drive, move, send, force, or carry with haste.
verb
To cause to occur or be done more rapidly or too rapidly; accelerate the preparation or completion of; urge on.
verb
To urge or cause to act soon or too soon.
verb
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To move or act with speed or haste.
verb
To cause to move or act with speed or haste.
Hurried the children to school.
verb
hurry it up
- to do or carry out with speed or promptness
idiom
hurry up
- to act with speed or promptness
idiom
in a hurry
- very rapidly; in a rush
- eager to do, act, etc.in a hurry to graduate and find a job.
idiom
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Idioms and Phrasal Verbs
Origin of hurry
- Possibly Middle English horien perhaps variant of harien to harass harry
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- Middle English horyed (“rushed, impelled”), frequentative of hurren (“to vibrate rapidly, buzz”), from Proto-Germanic *hurzaną (“to rush”) (compare Middle High German hurren (“to hasten”), Norwegian hurre (“to whirl around”)), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱers-, *ḱors- (“to run, hurry”) (compare Welsh carrog (“torrent”), Latin currō (“I run”), Tocharian A/B kursär/kwärsar (“league; course”), Lithuanian karsiù (“to go quickly”)). Related to horse, rush.
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