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Hurry   /hˈəri/   Listen
Hurry

verb
(past & past part. hurried; pres. part. hurrying)
1.
Move very fast.  Synonyms: speed, travel rapidly, zip.
2.
Act or move at high speed.  Synonyms: festinate, hasten, look sharp, rush.  "Hurry--it's late!"
3.
Urge to an unnatural speed.  Synonym: rush.  Antonym: delay.
noun
1.
A condition of urgency making it necessary to hurry.  Synonym: haste.
2.
Overly eager speed (and possible carelessness).  Synonyms: haste, hastiness, hurriedness, precipitation.
3.
The act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner.  Synonyms: haste, rush, rushing.



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"Hurry" Quotes from Famous Books



... Mrs. Mann to keep her in the shade and look out for her, and you tell Jim, if he hasn't got his horse in his farm-wagon, to look lively and harness her in and put all the ice they've got in the house in the wagon. Hurry!" ...
— The Copy-Cat and Other Stories • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

... such hurry. I have something to say first, in explanation of the anger you have seen me display; an anger which is unseemly in a man professing to have conquered the sins and passions of lost humanity. I did follow this child. You were right in saying that it was my horse and buggy which were seen ...
— The Millionaire Baby • Anna Katharine Green

... clearing all soil from the roots, scraping the bottoms of deserted holes, and generally keeping your eye about for little bits of ground left between workings by earlier miners who were in too great a hurry looking after the big fish to attend much ...
— A Dictionary of Austral English • Edward Morris

... glory by which ordinary orators square their attempts, who (as it is easy to observe) when they are delivered of a speech that has been thirty years a conceiving, nay, perhaps at last, none of their own, yet they will swear they wrote it in a great hurry, and upon very short warning: whereas the reason of my not being provided beforehand is only because it was always my humour constantly to speak that which lies uppermost. Next, let no one be so fond as to imagine, that I should so far stint my ...
— In Praise of Folly - Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts • Desiderius Erasmus

... known, by you. Again, you will observe that the words are not gummed on in an accurate line, but that some are much higher than others. 'Life,' for example is quite out of its proper place. That may point to carelessness or it may point to agitation and hurry upon the part of the cutter. On the whole I incline to the latter view, since the matter was evidently important, and it is unlikely that the composer of such a letter would be careless. If he were in a hurry it opens ...
— The Hound of the Baskervilles • A. Conan Doyle


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