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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.)

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Etymology of 'Hurrying'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Hurrying" Quotes from Famous Books

... mill? Solitude had made his view of mankind a new and wondering one; he now, in every strange face he met, involuntarily sought for a little of that which makes each individual a world in himself. But these men were all alike, he thought; they came hurrying out of the darkness of the side streets, and were not fully awake and steady on their feet until they joined the throng, but then they did walk capitally. He recognized the firm beat again: he had himself taught ...

— Pelle the Conqueror, Complete • Martin Andersen Nexo

... that can be won by arms. The Americans had fondly thought that they were to be exempt from the curse of war—at any rate from the bitterness of the curse. But the days for such exemption have not come as yet. While we are hurrying on to make twelve-inch shield plates for our men-of-war, we can hardly dare to think of the days when the sword shall be turned into the plowshare. May it not be thought well for us if, with such work on our hands, scraps ...

— Volume 2 • Anthony Trollope

... was away and he was standing there. Tybar killed. She had said they were hurrying to Scotland, to Tony's home. Tybar killed! He was getting in people's way. He went rather uncertainly to the railings bounding the pavement where he stood, and leaned against them and stared across into the dim cavern of the ...

— If Winter Comes • A.S.M. Hutchinson

... and her husband met—the man was hurrying out of his room, he had not even given himself time to lock away the cigars—she had to laugh: aha, he wanted to go upstairs too. She hung on his arm and they ...

— The Son of His Mother • Clara Viebig

... its construction. But the Americans are impetuous in the way of improvement, and have all the impatience of children about the trying of a new thing, often greatly retarding their own progress by hurrying unduly the completion of their works, or using them in a perilous state of incompleteness. Our road lay for a considerable length of time through flat, low meadows that skirt the Delaware, which at this season of the year, covered with ...

— Records of Later Life • Frances Anne Kemble

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