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verb

Hurry v. t. (past & past part. hurried; pres. part. hurrying)

To hasten; to impel to greater speed; to urge on. "Impetuous lust hurries him on." "They hurried him abroad a bark."

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."

To cause to be done quickly.

Synonyms: To hasten; precipitate; expedite; quicken; accelerate; urge.

Hurry 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.)

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"Hurrying" Quotes from Famous Books

... Calyste was hurrying to Les Touches with the impetuosity of a first love borne on the wings of hope, the marquise was feeling a keen delight in knowing herself the object of the first love of so charming a young man. She did not go so far as to wish herself a sharer in the sentiment, but she thought it heroism ...

— Beatrix • Honore de Balzac

... know why I turned. Yes, and so was he. How well I remember the peaceful western light that fell along the fields and touched the trees so kindly! Every thing was still. The birds dropped hurrying homeward notes, and the cows were coming in from the pasture. I was going after our cow, but I leaned a long time on the bars and looked at the new moon timidly showing herself in the west. Then ...

— Trumps • George William Curtis

... just Dakie Thayne, though, for all that. He and Leslie and Cousin Delight, the Josselyns and the Inglesides, dear Miss Craydocke hurrying up to congratulate, Marmaduke Wharne looking on without a shade of cynicism in the gladness of his face, and Sin Saxon and Frank Scherman flitting up in the pauses of dance and promenade,—well, after all, these were the central group that night. The ...

— A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life. • Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney

... trouble the obliging clerk further, did not ask him where the reading room was. He inquired, instead, of a hurrying porter, and received the curt ...

— In the Midst of Alarms • Robert Barr

... storm burst upon them with all its fury. Its suddenness can only be appreciated by those who have sailed in the West India passages, where the sudden shocks of the short-chopping sea acts with a tremendous strain upon the hull of a heavy-laden vessel. The captain ran to the windward gangway, hurrying his men in the discharge of their duty, and giving another order to clew up the coursers and foretop-sail. Just as the men had executed the first, and were about to pull on the clew-lines of the latter, a sudden gust took effect upon the bag of the sail and carried ...

— Manuel Pereira • F. C. Adams

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