hurry
/ˈhʌ.ɹi/ verb A2- To do things quickly. · He's hurrying because he's late.
- Often with up, to speed up the rate of doing something. · If you don't hurry (up) you won't finish on time.
- To cause to be done quickly.
- To hasten; to impel to greater speed; to urge on.
- To impel to precipitate or thoughtless action; to urge to confused or irregular activity.
- To put: to convey coal in the mine, e.g. from the working to the tramway.
He/she/it hurries · Past hurried · Past participle hurried · -ing form hurrying
Verb forms
- Base form
- hurry
- He/she/it
- hurries
- Past
- hurried
- Past participle
- hurried
- -ing form
- hurrying
Phrasal verbs and expressions
From the library
I shall be late!” (when she thought it over afterwards, it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural); but when the Rabbit actually _took a watch out of its waistcoat-pocket_, and looked at it, and then hurried on, Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit-hole under the hedge.
Alice was not a bit hurt, and she jumped up on to her feet in a moment: she looked up, but it was all dark overhead; before her was another long passage, and the White Rabbit was still in sight, hurrying down it.
It was all very well to say “Drink me,” but the wise little Alice was not going to do _that_ in a hurry.
Just then her head struck against the roof of the hall: in fact she was now more than nine feet high, and she at once took up the little golden key and hurried off to the garden door.
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