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[ verb ] move very fast
Synonyms Examples "The runner zipped past us at breakneck speed" Used in print (Jack Kaplan, "The Health Machine Menace: Therapy by...)Leaving Lee 's office , Mrs._Shaefer hurried over to her family physician , who treated her for burned tissue . (Edwin L. Bigelow and Nancy H. Otis,...)In 1914 when the town was chosen for the U._S._Amateur_Golf tournament , a representative hurried here from the Boston manager 's office . (Tristram Coffin, Not to the Swift....)So we hurried over . (Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy....)Michelangelo hurried to Sangallo 's solitary bachelor room with his sketches , asked the architect to design a stand which would simulate the seated Madonna . (Ann Hebson, The Lattimer Legend....)When Kate hurried in alarm to tell him to put it out , she saw other dots of flames among the western Virginia hills from the few scattered fires of the faithful . |
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[ verb ] act or move at high speed
Synonyms Examples "We have to rush!" "hurry--it's late!" Used in print (Stephen Longstreet, Eagles Where I Walk....)The future would happen ; he did not have_to hurry it by thinking too_much . Related terms |
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[ noun ] a condition of urgency making it necessary to hurry
Synonyms Examples "in a hurry to lock the door" Used in print (W. E. B. DuBois, Worlds of Color....)As for rebuilding , well , that might be looked_into , but there was no hurry , no hurry at_all . As for rebuilding , well , that might be looked_into , but there was no hurry , no hurry at_all . (E. Lucas Myers, "The Vindication of Dr. Nestor,"...)Alex told her that there was no hurry for their breakfasts , trying at_the_same_time to effect a speedy separation of the persons before and behind him . (John Hazard Wildman, "Take It Off," The Arizona...)The policeman 's eyes rather popped for a second ; but then Arlene got another tone in a hurry , and she said , `` If it was n't for these dear children '' - . |
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[ noun ] overly eager speed (and possible carelessness)
Synonyms Examples "he soon regretted his haste" Used in print (Guy Endore, Voltaire! Voltaire!...)He is in a hurry to write another essay against culture . Related terms |
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[ verb ] urge to an unnatural speed
Synonyms Examples "Don't rush me, please!" Used in print (Perry Miller "Theodore Parker: Apostasy within Liberalism"...)- that should a minister in Boston trust himself to his heart , should he `` speak without book , and consequently break some law of speech , or be hurried into some daring hyperbole , he should find little mercy '' . |
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