hurry

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hur⋅ry

[hur-ee, huhr-ee]

verb, -ried, -ry⋅ing, noun, plural -ries.

–verb (used without object)

1.	to move, proceed, or act with haste (often fol. by up): Hurry, or we'll be late. Hurry up, it's starting to rain.

–verb (used with object)

2.	to drive, carry, or cause to move or perform with speed.

3.	to hasten; urge forward (often fol. by up).

4.	to impel or perform with undue haste: to hurry someone into a decision.

–noun

5.	a state of urgency or eagerness: to be in a hurry to meet a train.

6.	hurried movement or action; haste.

Origin:
1580–90; expressive word of uncert. orig., cf. ME horyed (attested once) rushed, impelled, MHG hurren to move quickly

Related forms:

hur⋅ry⋅ing⋅ly, adverb

Synonyms:
1. See rush ¹ . 2. hasten. 3. accelerate, quicken; expedite, hustle. 6. celerity; expedition, dispatch; speed, quickness; bustle, ado.

Antonyms:
3. delay, slow. 6. deliberation.

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hur·ry (hûr'ē, hŭr'-)

v.   hur·ried, hur·ry·ing, hur·ries

v.   intr.
To move or act with speed or haste.
v.   tr.

To cause to move or act with speed or haste: hurried the children to school.
To cause to move or act with undue haste; rush: was hurried into marriage.
To speed the progress or completion of; expedite. See Synonyms at speed.

n. pl. hur·ries

The act or an instance of hurrying; hastened progress.
Activity or motion that is often unduly hurried; haste. See Synonyms at haste.
The need or wish to hurry; a condition of urgency: in no hurry to leave.

[Possibly Middle English horien, perhaps variant of harien, to harass; see harry.]
hur'ri·er n.

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Hurry

Hur"ry\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hurried; p. pr. & vb. n. Hurrying.] [OE. horien; cf. OSw. hurra to whirl round, dial. Sw. hurr great haste, Dan. hurre to buzz, Icel. hurr hurly-burly, MHG. hurren to hurry, and E. hurr, whir to hurry; all prob. of imitative origin.]

1. To hasten; to impel to greater speed; to urge on.

Impetuous lust hurries him on. --South.

They hurried him abroad a bark. --Shak.

2. To impel to precipitate or thoughtless action; to urge to confused or irregular activity.

And wild amazement hurries up and down The little number of your doubtful friends. --Shak.

3. To cause to be done quickly.

Syn: To hasten; precipitate; expedite; quicken; accelerate; urge.

Hurry

Hur"ry\, v. i. To move or act with haste; to proceed with celerity or precipitation; as, let us hurry.

To hurry up, to make haste. [Colloq.]

Hurry

Hur"ry\, n. The act of hurrying in motion or business; pressure; urgency; bustle; confusion.

Ambition raises a tumult in the soul, it inflames the mind, and puts into a violent hurry of thought. --Addison.

Syn: Haste; speed; dispatch. See Haste.

Language Translation for : hurry

Spanish: darse prisa (intransitivo); meter prisa (transitivo); aligerar, acelerar,

German: sich beeilen, drängen,

Japanese: 急ぐ

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hurry (v.)

1590, first recorded in Shakespeare, who used it often, perhaps a W.Midlands sense of M.E. hurren "to vibrate rapidly, buzz," from P.Gmc. *khurza "to move with haste" (cf. M.H.G. hurren "to whir, move fast," O.Swed. hurra "to whirl round"), which also perhaps is the root of hurl. The noun is 1600, from the verb. Reduplicated form hurry-scurry is from 1732.

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