HURRY (hurried)

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Irregular inflected form: hurried   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does hurry mean? 

• HURRY (noun)
  The noun HURRY has 3 senses:

1. a condition of urgency making it necessary to hurry

2. overly eager speed (and possible carelessness)

3. the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner

  Familiarity information: HURRY used as a noun is uncommon.

• HURRY (verb)
  The verb HURRY has 3 senses:

1. move very fast

2. act or move at high speed

3. urge to an unnatural speed

  Familiarity information: HURRY used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HURRY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A condition of urgency making it necessary to hurry

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

haste; hurry

Context example:

in a hurry to lock the door

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

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

Derivation:

hurry (urge to an unnatural speed)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Overly eager speed (and possible carelessness)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

haste; hastiness; hurriedness; hurry; precipitation

Context example:

he soon regretted his haste

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:

The act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

haste; hurry; rush; rushing

Context example:

in his haste to leave he forgot his book

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)

• HURRY (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they hurry    ... he / she / it hurries   
Past simple: hurried   
Past participle: hurried   
-ing form: hurrying   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Move very fast

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

hurry; speed; travel rapidly; zip

Context example:

The runner zipped past us at breakneck speed

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Act or move at high speed

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

festinate; hasten; hurry; look sharp; rush

Context example:

hurry--it's late!

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:

Urge to an unnatural speed

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

hurry; rush

Context example:

Don't rush me, please!

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)

 Context examples 

Buck hurried on, swiftly and stealthily, every nerve straining and tense, alert to the multitudinous details which told a story—all but the end.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Of one thing I am glad: if it was that the Count carried me here and undressed me, he must have been hurried in his task, for my pockets are intact.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“Lookee here! As Em'ly wishes of it, and as she's hurried and frightened, like, besides, I'll leave her till morning. Let me stay too!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I'm happy as I am, and love my liberty too well to be in a hurry to give it up for any mortal man.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

You will not think of quitting it in a hurry, I hope, though you have but a short lease.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

In silence we stood together in the darkness and watched the hurrying figures who passed and repassed in front of us.

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

Then he turned to me, tapped his forehead three times, shook his head solemnly, and hurried away.

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

Indeed it was: I had as good a right to die when my time came as he had: but I should bide that time, and not be hurried away in a suttee.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

All this is from my hurried notes taken at the time, which give little notion of the absolute chaos to which the assembly had by this time been reduced.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Anne was startled and confused; but after standing in a moment's suspense, was obliged, and not sorry to be obliged, to hurry away.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)