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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

HUR'RY, v.t. [L. curro.]
1. To hasten; to impel to greater speed; to drive or press forward with more rapidity; to urge to act or proceed with more celerity; as, to hurry the workmen or the work. Our business hurries us. The weather is hot and the load heavy; we cannot safely hurry the horses.
2. To drive or impel with violence.
Impetuous lust hurries him on to satisfy the cravings of it.
3. To urge or drive with precipitation and confusion; for confusion is often caused by hurry.
And wild amazement hurries up and down
The little number of your doubtful friends.
To hurry away, to drive or carry away in haste.
HUR'RY, v.i. To move or act with haste; to proceed with celerity or precipitation.
The business is urgent; let us hurry.
HUR'RY, n. A driving or pressing forward in motion or business.
1. Pressure; urgency to haste.
We cannot wait long; we are in a hurry.
2. Precipitation that occasions disorder or confusion.
It is necessary sometimes to be in haste, but never in a hurry.
3. Tumult; bustle; commotion.
Ambition raises a tumult in the soul, and puts it into a violent hurry of thought.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a condition of urgency making it necessary to hurry; "in a hurry to lock the door" [syn: hurry, haste]
2: overly eager speed (and possible carelessness); "he soon regretted his haste" [syn: haste, hastiness, hurry, hurriedness, precipitation]
3: the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner; "in his haste to leave he forgot his book" [syn: haste, hurry, rush, rushing] v
1: move very fast; "The runner zipped past us at breakneck speed" [syn: travel rapidly, speed, hurry, zip]
2: act or move at high speed; "We have to rush!"; "hurry--it's late!" [syn: rush, hasten, hurry, look sharp, festinate]
3: urge to an unnatural speed; "Don't rush me, please!" [syn: rush, hurry] [ant: delay, detain, hold up]

Merriam Webster's

I. verb (hurried; hurrying) Etymology: perhaps from Middle English horyen Date: 1592 transitive verb 1. a. to carry or cause to go with haste <hurry them to the hospital> b. to impel to rash or precipitate action 2. a. to impel to greater speed ; prod <used spurs to hurry the horse> b. expedite c. to perform with undue haste <hurry a minuet> intransitive verb to move or act with haste <please hurry up> • hurrier noun II. noun Date: 1600 1. disturbed or disorderly activity ; commotion 2. a. agitated and often bustling or disorderly haste b. a state of eagerness or urgency ; rush Synonyms: see haste

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & v. --n. (pl. -ies) 1 a great haste. b (with neg. or interrog.) a need for haste (there is no hurry; what's the hurry?). 2 (often foll. by for, or to + infin.) eagerness to get a thing done quickly. --v. (-ies, -ied) 1 move or act with great or undue haste. 2 tr. (often foll. by away, along) cause to move or proceed in this way. 3 tr. (as hurried adj.) hasty; done rapidly owing to lack of time. Phrases and idioms: hurry along (or up) make or cause to make haste. in a hurry 1 hurrying, rushed; in a rushed manner. 2 colloq. easily or readily (you will not beat that in a hurry; shall not ask again in a hurry). Derivatives: hurriedly adv. hurriedness n. Etymology: 16th c.: imit.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Hurry Hur"ry, 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.]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Hurry Hur"ry, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hurried; p. pr. & vb. n. Hurrying.] [OE. horien; cf. OSw. hurra to whirl round, dial. Sw. hurr great haste, Dan. hurre to buzz, Icel. hurr hurly-burly, MHG. hurren to hurry, and E. hurr, whir to hurry; all prob. of imitative origin.] 1. To hasten; to impel to greater speed; to urge on. Impetuous lust hurries him on. --South. They hurried him abroad a bark. --Shak. 2. 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. --Shak. 3. To cause to be done quickly. Syn: To hasten; precipitate; expedite; quicken; accelerate; urge.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Hurry Hur"ry, 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. --Addison. Syn: Haste; speed; dispatch. See Haste.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(hurries, hurrying, hurried) 1. If you hurry somewhere, you go there as quickly as you can. Claire hurried along the road... Bob hurried to join him, and they rode home together. VERB: V prep/adv, V 2. If you hurry to do something, you start doing it as soon as you can, or try to do it quickly. Mrs Hardie hurried to make up for her tactlessness by asking her guest about his holiday... There was no longer any reason to hurry. VERB: V to-inf, V 3. If you are in a hurry to do something, you need or want to do something quickly. If you do something in a hurry, you do it quickly or suddenly. Kate was in a hurry to grow up, eager for knowledge and experience... N-SING: usu in a N, oft N to-inf 4. To hurry something means the same as to hurry up something. ...The President's attempt to hurry the process of independence. VERB: V n 5. If you hurry someone to a place or into a situation, you try to make them go to that place or get into that situation quickly. They say they are not going to be hurried into any decision... I don't want to hurry you. = rush VERB: V n prep/adv, V n 6. If you say to someone 'There's no hurry' or 'I'm in no hurry' you are telling them that there is no need for them to do something immediately. I'll need to talk with you, but there's no hurry... PHRASE 7. If you are in no hurry to do something, you are very unwilling to do it. I love it at St Mirren so I'm in no hurry to go anywhere... PHRASE: PHR after v, PHR to-inf, PHR for n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. v. a. 1. Drive, precipitate. 2. Hasten, expedite, speed, despatch, urge or push forward, urge or press on. II. v. n. 1. Act precipitately, be in a flutter, be in a flurry. 2. Haste, hasten, move quickly, be in haste, be quick, be in a hurry, make haste, mend one's pace, move with celerity, lose no time, lose not a moment, wing one's way, make the best of one's way, crowd sail, clap spurs to one's horse. III. n. 1. Precipitation, flurry, flutter, agitation, confusion, bustle, perturbation, hurry-skurry. 2. Haste, despatch, celerity, quickness, promptitude, expedition.

Moby Thesaurus

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