Hurry definition
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.
He's hurrying because he's late.
If you don't hurry you won't finish on time.
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.
Why are you in such a big hurry?
Was hurried into marriage.
Hurried the delivery of the product.
I forgot my gloves in my hurry to catch the bus.
In no hurry to leave.
Hurried the children to school.
- to do or carry out with speed or promptness
- to act with speed or promptness
- very rapidly; in a rush
- eager to do, act, etc.in a hurry to graduate and find a job.
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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