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
“Winky — hie — is not only — hie — doing housework for Mr. Crouch!”
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
He said HIE was also working with other organisations on habitat restoration.
From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2023
The centre remains open, and HIE said it would open as planned for snowsports this coming winter.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2021
“We negotiated for ages. I think we drove HIE mad. We wanted to protect crofters’ rights.”
From The Guardian ● Oct. 9, 2020
Orbex is building the petite, 19m-tall launch vehicles HIE hopes will carry dozens of microsatellites into space from the Mhoine using low-pollution biopropane fuel.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 9, 2020
"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
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
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
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
By such steps we think to fix a momentary resolution; as a timid fellow hies him to the dentist’s while the tooth is stinging.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 2 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
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
He hied him to the office of the Radio Co., sat him in a comfortable chair and talked quietly to millions.
From Time Magazine Archive
To Tokyo he hied in 1923, arrived just in time to tremble through the most disastrous earthquake in Japanese history.
From Time Magazine Archive
About two weeks after the stand-off with the wild horses at Wolf Creek, I hied myself to Vida.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
Grabbing all that dough and hieing out for parts unknown.
From Time Magazine Archive
All the birds that skim the wave In hasty flight are hieing home; T the lee of safer haven All the storm-tossed vessels come.
From Bulfinch's Mythology: the Age of Fable by Thomas Bulfinch
Then he cried out to them, "Another day, O ye dogs;" and no sooner had they heard his outcry than they turned from him flying and to safety hieing.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 15 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Two strangers on the road are hieing; And as they fleet beside him flying, These muttered words his ear dismay: "Now—now the cross has claimed its prey!"
From The Poems of Schiller — Third period by Friedrich Schiller
He had a few hours before left the garrison of Ninety-Six, and was now hieing with all haste to Blackstock's on a mission of importance.
From Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by John Pendleton Kennedy
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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