HURRYING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hurrying mean? 

• HURRYING (noun)
  The noun HURRYING has 1 sense:

1. changing location rapidly

  Familiarity information: HURRYING used as a noun is very rare.

• HURRYING (adjective)
  The adjective HURRYING has 1 sense:

1. moving with great haste

  Familiarity information: HURRYING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HURRYING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Changing location rapidly

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

hurrying; speed; speeding

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)

• HURRYING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Moving with great haste

Synonyms:

hurrying; scurrying

Context example:

lashed the scurrying horses

Similar:

fast (acting or moving or capable of acting or moving quickly)

 Context examples 

By-and-by I heard Fred's voice, and then he came hurrying through the great arch to find me.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

And she scampered out of sight, with all the mice hurrying after her.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

The witch fell into a passion, sprang to the window, and as she could look forth quite far into the world, she perceived her stepdaughter hurrying away with her sweetheart Roland.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

And then as I was hurrying off I heard him say, quite loudly, to the doctor, “I'll have no favourites on my ship.”

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

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)

I saw my wife and the maid hurrying back along the lane, but I did not stop to speak with them.

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

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)

Holmes and I rushed out and round the angle of the house, with Toller hurrying behind us.

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

I was almost afraid you would be hurrying home.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Still hurrying along. The day has come, and Godalming is sleeping. I am on watch.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)