hurry
to move, proceed, or act with haste (often followed by up): Hurry, or we'll be late. Hurry up, it's starting to rain.
to drive, carry, or cause to move or perform with speed.
to hasten; urge forward (often followed by up).
to impel or perform with undue haste: to hurry someone into a decision.
a state of urgency or eagerness: to be in a hurry to meet a train.
hurried movement or action; haste.
Origin of hurry
1synonym study For hurry
Other words for hurry
Opposites for hurry
Other words from hurry
- hur·ry·ing·ly, adverb
- o·ver·hur·ry, verb, o·ver·hur·ried, o·ver·hur·ry·ing.
- un·hur·ry·ing, adjective
- un·hur·ry·ing·ly, adverb
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How to use hurry in a sentence
Her soft unhurrying voice halted for a time, and then resumed in the same even tones of careful statement.
The Secret Places of the Heart | H. G. WellsShe led the way with a quiet unhurrying step up a broad stairway, and opened a door.
Anne | Constance Fenimore WoolsonThe result is an unhurrying way of buying and selling which would make a Smithfield salesman white with despair.
The Amazing Argentine | John Foster FraserThe story is epic in its magnitude, in its calm, steady progress and unhurrying rhythm, in its vast and intimate humanity.
Mothwise | Knut HamsunIt was her unseen familiar, voiceless, but ever present, with a look unhurrying but constant.
Ewing\'s Lady | Harry Leon Wilson
British Dictionary definitions for hurry
/ (ˈhʌrɪ) /
(intr often foll by up) to hasten (to do something); rush
(tr often foll by along) to speed up the completion, progress, etc, of
haste
urgency or eagerness
in a hurry informal
easily: you won't beat him in a hurry
willingly: we won't go there again in a hurry
Origin of hurry
1Derived forms of hurry
- hurrying, noun, adjective
- hurryingly, adverb
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