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HURRY

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Irregular inflected form: hurried   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner

Example:

in his haste to leave he forgot his book

Synonyms:

haste; hurry; rush; rushing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("hurry" is a kind of...):

motion; move; movement (the act of changing location from one place to another)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hurry"):

bolt; dash (the act of moving with great haste)

scamper; scramble; scurry (rushing about hastily in an undignified way)

Derivation:

hurry (move very fast)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Overly eager speed (and possible carelessness)

Example:

he soon regretted his haste

Synonyms:

haste; hastiness; hurriedness; hurry; precipitation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("hurry" is a kind of...):

fastness; speed; swiftness (a rate (usually rapid) at which something happens)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hurry"):

abruptness; precipitance; precipitancy; precipitateness; precipitousness; suddenness (the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning)

Derivation:

hurry (act or move at high speed)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A condition of urgency making it necessary to hurry

Example:

in a hurry to lock the door

Synonyms:

haste; hurry

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("hurry" is a kind of...):

urgency (the state of being urgent; an earnest and insistent necessity)

Derivation:

hurry (urge to an unnatural speed)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Urge to an unnatural speed

Example:

Don't rush me, please!

Synonyms:

hurry; rush

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "hurry" is one way to...):

exhort; press; urge; urge on (force or impel in an indicated direction)

Cause:

festinate; hasten; hurry; look sharp; rush (act or move at high speed)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

hurry (a condition of urgency making it necessary to hurry)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Act or move at high speed

Example:

hurry--it's late!

Synonyms:

festinate; hasten; hurry; look sharp; rush

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "hurry" is one way to...):

act; move (perform an action, or work out or perform (an action))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

hurry (overly eager speed (and possible carelessness))

Sense 3

Meaning:

Move very fast

Example:

The runner zipped past us at breakneck speed

Synonyms:

hurry; speed; travel rapidly; zip

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "hurry" is one way to...):

go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "hurry"):

dart; fleet; flit; flutter (move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart)

run (move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time)

whizz; whizz along; zoom; zoom along (move along very quickly)

Sentence frames:

Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

hurry (the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner)

hurrying (changing location rapidly)

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 Context examples: 

And with the same grave countenance he hurried through his breakfast and drove to the police station, whither the body had been carried.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Sure enough there was no hurry.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

We hurried down the village street and found, as we had expected, that the inspector was just leaving his lodgings.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There I saw the Exchange and the Bank and Lloyd’s Coffee House, with the brown-coated, sharp-faced merchants and the hurrying clerks, the huge horses and the busy draymen.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Landing at London, he had hurried on with a mind full of care, for he had heard no word from Hampshire since the short note which had announced his brother's death.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A frightful selfishness hurried me on, while my heart was poisoned with remorse.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Did you ask her why she hurried away that night?

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And he had come there the next day, hurrying from school to be there first, and beating Cheese-Face by two minutes.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

When it was open the wild man stepped out, gave him the golden ball, and hurried away.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

You might be in a hurry, but the universe has its own timetable, and it’s best to wait to be in sync with Mother Nature’s rhythms.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)