hurry (verb)

  • 1hurry — ► VERB (hurries, hurried) ▪ move or act quickly or more quickly. ► NOUN ▪ great haste; urgency. ● in a hurry Cf. ↑in a hurry DERIVATIVES hurried …

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  • 2hurry — verb (hurries, hurrying, hurried) move or act quickly or more quickly. ↘do or finish (something) quickly. noun great haste. ↘[with negative and in questions] a need for haste; urgency. Phrases in a hurry [usu. with negative] informal easily;… …

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  • 3hurry up — verb To hurry; to increase the speed of doing something. Syn: get a move on, get ones skates on …

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  • 4hurry — [[t]hʌ̱ri, AM hɜ͟ːri[/t]] hurries, hurrying, hurried 1) VERB If you hurry somewhere, you go there as quickly as you can. [V prep/adv] Claire hurried along the road... [V prep/adv] When she finished work she had to hurry home and look after her… …

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  • 5hurry — 1 verb 1 (I, T) to do something or go somewhere more quickly than usual, especially because there is not much time: The movie begins as six we ll have to hurry. | hurry through/along/down etc: She hurried down the corridor as fast as she could. | …

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  • 6hurry — hur|ry1 [ hʌri ] verb intransitive ** to do something or move somewhere very quickly: We must hurry or we shall be late back. Alec had to hurry home, but I stayed on. hurry along/through/into: She hurried along the corridor toward his office. He… …

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  • 7hurry up — I PHRASAL VERB If you tell someone to hurry up, you are telling them do something more quickly than they were doing. [V P] Franklin told Howe to hurry up and take his bath; otherwise, they d miss their train... [V P with n] Hurry up with that… …

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  • 8hurry — I. verb (hurried; hurrying) Etymology: perhaps from Middle English horyen Date: 1592 transitive verb 1. a. to carry or cause to go with haste < hurry them to the hospital > b. to impel to rash or precipitate action …

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  • 9hurry — I UK [ˈhʌrɪ] / US verb Word forms hurry : present tense I/you/we/they hurry he/she/it hurries present participle hurrying past tense hurried past participle hurried ** [intransitive] to do something or to move somewhere very quickly We must hurry …

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  • 10hurry*/ — [ˈhʌri] verb [I/T] I to do something or to move somewhere very quickly, or to make someone do this We must hurry or we ll be late.[/ex] Alex had to hurry home, but I decided to stay.[/ex] She hurried along the corridor towards his office.[/ex]&#8230; …

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