flurry
/ˈflʌ.ɹi/ verb C2- To agitate, bewilder, fluster.
- To move or fall in a flurry.
He/she/it flurries · Past flurried · Past participle flurried · -ing form flurrying
Verb forms
- Base form
- flurry
- He/she/it
- flurries
- Past
- flurried
- Past participle
- flurried
- -ing form
- flurrying
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“Here!” cried Alice, quite forgetting in the flurry of the moment how large she had grown in the last few minutes, and she jumped up in such a hurry that she tipped over the jury-box with the edge of her skirt, upsetting all the jurymen on to the heads of the crowd below, and there they lay sprawling about, reminding her very much of a globe of goldfish she had accidentally upset the week before.
“I’d prefer to walk, for this affair has flurried me rather.”
Holmes, you know as well as I do that a criminal is often flurried, and does such things, which a cool man would avoid.
A Flurry in Stocks
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