hie
verb (used without object)
to hasten; speed; go in haste.
hie
American
[hahy]
/ haɪ /
verb (used without object)
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hies,
present (3rd person singular)
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hied,
past participle, past
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hieing,
present participle
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hying
present participle
verb (used with object)
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hies,
present (3rd person singular)
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hied,
past participle, past
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hieing,
present participle
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hying
present participle
HIE
1
British
abbreviation
hie
2
British
/ haɪ /
verb
Other Word Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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hiesimple
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hiessimple
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have hiedperfect
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has hiedperfect
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am hieingprogressive
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am hyingprogressive
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are hieingprogressive
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are hyingprogressive
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is hieingprogressive
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is hyingprogressive
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have been hieingperfect progressive
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have been hyingperfect progressive
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has been hieingperfect progressive
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has been hyingperfect progressive
Past
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hiedsimple
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had hiedperfect
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was hieingprogressive
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was hyingprogressive
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were hieingprogressive
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were hyingprogressive
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had been hieingperfect progressive
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had been hyingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of hie
before 900; Middle English hien, hyen, Old English hīgian to strive; cognate with Dutch hijgen to pant, Greek kíein to go; Latin ciēre to cause to go
Explanation
To hie is to move in a hurried or hasty way. It's the kind of word you are more likely hear in a Shakespeare play, like when a character demands, "Hie thee hither!" The verb hie is extremely old fashioned, so you're much more likely to read it in a book than to hear someone say it. Still, it's good to know when you read, "Hie thee to the castle!" that it means "Hey, get a move on! Go to the castle!" It comes from the Old English word higian, "strive or hasten," from a Proto-Germanic root.
Vocabulary lists containing hie
Example Sentences
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Nick Wittgren allowed four straight singles starting the fourth, including Alex Rivas’ RBI hie.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 26, 2022
If you, like me, find yourself wondering this week about how the hell this whole Johnny English thing got started, hie yourself to YouTube and search for “Johnny English Barclaycard.”
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 24, 2018
Prithee wouldst thou extinguish it, or hie thee to the lobby?
From Washington Post ● Apr. 29, 2015
Chief among the sprawling cast are the overbearingly pompous grocer, Herr Zangler, and his two naif assistants who seize the opportunity of their boss' day-long absence to hie off to Vienna on a romantic adventure.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2014
The professor has just confirmed what Ida told me; now I need to hie myself over to that side of town and find Katherine and Lily.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
HIE first needs the approval of the land court, a body which adjudicates on changes of use for legally designated crofting land, for permission to build the site.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 9, 2020
“We negotiated for ages. I think we drove HIE mad. We wanted to protect crofters’ rights.”
From The Guardian ● Oct. 9, 2020
Following publication of the HIE report, Deputy First Minister John Swinney sought to find some positive messages, stressing that it was "a mid-term evaluation", showing how Enterprise Area status "complements wider support".
From BBC ● Mar. 22, 2016
Some firms rely on HIE for one-third of their funding.
From Economist ● Nov. 5, 2015
"HIE, hie," says Anthony, "Puss in the pantry, Gnawing, gnawing A mutton mutton-bone; See now she tumbles it, See now she mumbles it, See how she tosses The mutton mutton-bone."
From The Nursery Rhyme Book by L. Leslie (Leonard Leslie) Brooke
A wise man, with fine theories to air, hies him to the most important conference or institute that will admit him.
From Time Magazine Archive
When a U. S. President enters the White House, Father Time knows where to find him for the next four years and generally hies himself to Paris, there to split seconds as the Premiers fall.
From Time Magazine Archive
Merrill blithely quits his insurance job, hies to the highlands and begins a life of happy isolation.
From Time Magazine Archive
“You are now thirteen,” the man said, “and I have in my hies an agreement for this arrangement signed by Kapugen and Naka.”
From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George
He hies him across to staring, nodding Harold, and speaks from behind his chair.
From Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling
Then he hied to the living room couch.
From BusinessWeek ● Mar. 31, 2011
When the author took the play home for repairs, Nichols hied himself off to Vancouver for the summer to direct “The Importance of Being Earnest” and to play the Dauphin opposite Susan Kohner’s St. Joan.
From Newsweek
To Tokyo he hied in 1923, arrived just in time to tremble through the most disastrous earthquake in Japanese history.
From Time Magazine Archive
More than once he has seen a possible solution to a specific problem in foreign affairs and hied himself off to put the proposition to the appropriate authorities.
From Time Magazine Archive
The number of bankruptcies hied with the federal court in Midland went up by 65 percent.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
Grabbing all that dough and hieing out for parts unknown.
From Time Magazine Archive
Look not to the west where the wild birds nest And the winds are hieing To sweep away sleep from the forest, And tatter the shrouds of sable silence Lit by the fire-fly's morris-dance.
From Nirvana Days by Cale Young Rice
Yesterday the roads had resounded with the blithe tramp of eager feet hieing homewards.
From Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes by Sarah Tytler
It was evening when his carriage thundered up to the little door in Brompton, whither the affectionate fellow drove first, and before hieing to the apartments secured for him by Mr. Dobbin at the Slaughters'.
From Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Bathes now the billow Winged steed flying, Sea-horse is longing to flee from the strand; Glad will he follow Him who is hieing Far from his home and his well beloved land.
From Fridthjof's Saga; a Norse romance by Martha A. Lyon Holcomb
Little Ann was hying hard to get ahold of the coon but she couldn’t.
From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls
Robak, pressing the lad's brow to his breast and hying his palms crosswise on his head, gazed aloft and said: “My son, may God be with you!”
From Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by George Rapall Noyes
To my mind, this latter is the pristine form of the tale, and points to a Buddhist origin—mercy to all hying creatures being one of the leading doctrines of pure Buddhism.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 13 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Two other hying machines were heard of about this date, one by Professor Giampietre, of Pavia, cigar-shaped, driven by screws, and rigged with masts and sails.
From The Dominion of the Air; the story of aerial navigation by John Mackenzie Bacon
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