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HURRYING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Changing location rapidly
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("hurrying" 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 "hurrying"):
acceleration; quickening; speedup (the act of accelerating; increasing the speed)
deceleration (the act of decelerating; decreasing the speed)
scud; scudding (the act of moving along swiftly (as before a gale))
Derivation:
hurry (move very fast)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Moving with great haste
Example:
lashed the scurrying horses
Synonyms:
hurrying; scurrying
Classified under:
Similar:
fast (acting or moving or capable of acting or moving quickly)
III. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb hurry
Context examples:
She would not give him time to reply, but hurrying instantly to her husband, called out as she entered the library, Oh!
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
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)
In the silence that ensued, my aunt walked gravely up to Mr. Dick, without at all hurrying herself, and gave him a hug and a sounding kiss.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Through all her sixteen landward gates there had set for many years a double tide of empty-handed soldiers hurrying Francewards, and of enriched and laden bands who brought their spoils home.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I lingered but a moment at the mirror: the second and conclusive experiment had yet to be attempted; it yet remained to be seen if I had lost my identity beyond redemption and must flee before daylight from a house that was no longer mine; and hurrying back to my cabinet, I once more prepared and drank the cup, once more suffered the pangs of dissolution, and came to myself once more with the character, the stature and the face of Henry Jekyll.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Marianne looked again; her heart sunk within her; and abruptly turning round, she was hurrying back, when the voices of both her sisters were raised to detain her; a third, almost as well known as Willoughby's, joined them in begging her to stop, and she turned round with surprise to see and welcome Edward Ferrars.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
And so saying, he was hurrying away, before Fanny, overpowered by a thousand feelings of pain and pleasure, could attempt to speak; but quickened by one sovereign wish, she then called out, Oh! cousin, stop a moment, pray stop!
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
So rapid had been her movements that in spite of the Tilneys' advantage in the outset, they were but just turning into their lodgings as she came within view of them; and the servant still remaining at the open door, she used only the ceremony of saying that she must speak with Miss Tilney that moment, and hurrying by him proceeded upstairs.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Still half-awake, and unable to imagine what it all might mean, I found myself hurrying madly after him through the wood, a rifle under each arm and a pile of various stores in my hands.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The rooms were shut up, the lodgers almost all gone, scarcely any family but of the residents left; and, as there is nothing to admire in the buildings themselves, the remarkable situation of the town, the principal street almost hurrying into the water, the walk to the Cobb, skirting round the pleasant little bay, which, in the season, is animated with bathing machines and company; the Cobb itself, its old wonders and new improvements, with the very beautiful line of cliffs stretching out to the east of the town, are what the stranger's eye will seek; and a very strange stranger it must be, who does not see charms in the immediate environs of Lyme, to make him wish to know it better.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
