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verb

Hurry v. t. (past & past part. hurried; pres. part. hurrying)

To hasten; to impel to greater speed; to urge on. "Impetuous lust hurries him on." "They hurried him abroad a bark."

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."

To cause to be done quickly.

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

Hurry 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.)

noun

Hurry 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."

Synonyms: Haste; speed; dispatch. See Haste.

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"Hurry" Quotes from Famous Books

... all right, but you'll have to hurry. It's eleven-ten now. You've only got fifteen minutes to make the train. Tell her ...

— Youth and the Bright Medusa • Willa Cather

... are, the main ones. But he's backing some of the local clothing manufacturers, the sweat-shop lot. They've been having strikes. That interferes with profits. Uncle wants the good old days of the night-stick and the hurry-up wagon back. He's even willing to spend a little ...

— Success - A Novel • Samuel Hopkins Adams

... the time is not yet come," said the executioner, who had heard this talk. He knew his statement must be believed, and wished as far as possible to reassure the marquise. "There is no hurry, and we cannot start for ...

— CELEBRATED CRIMES, COMPLETE - THE MARQUISE DE BRINVILLIERS • ALEXANDRE DUMAS, PERE

... left at right angles to the river bed apparently offered a covered way up the hill to the crest. In the plantation occurred the first calamity of the war. Symons, who had come up impatiently from the lower ground to hurry up the assault, which he thought was being unnecessarily delayed, was mortally wounded. Three days later he paid with his life for his adherence to a forward policy in tactics as well as in strategy; and ...

— A Handbook of the Boer War • Gale and Polden, Limited

... weather, a little sultry; yet travelling would have been pleasant enough had our minds been easy, which they could not be. It was hard to go fast enough for Althea, Will having to make her understand it was small wisdom to hurry our horses beyond their strength; then she ...

— Andrew Golding - A Tale of the Great Plague • Anne E. Keeling

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