Hurry

  • 21hurry up — I PHRASAL VERB If you tell someone to hurry up, you are telling them do something more quickly than they were doing. [V P] Franklin told Howe to hurry up and take his bath; otherwise, they d miss their train... [V P with n] Hurry up with that… …

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  • 22hurry — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ big, great, real, tearing (esp. BrE), terrible (esp. BrE) ▪ I was late for work and in a big hurry. PREPOSITION ▪ …

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  • 23hurry — Synonyms and related words: accelerate, ado, agitation, air speed, bolt, brouhaha, bundle, bustle, buzz about, career, celerity, chase, cheer on, commotion, crowd, dart, dash, dash off, dash on, dig out, dispatch, disquiet, disturbance, dither,… …

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  • 24hurry up — phrasal verb Word forms hurry up : present tense I/you/we/they hurry up he/she/it hurries up present participle hurrying up past tense hurried up past participle hurried up 1) [intransitive] mainly spoken used for telling someone to do something… …

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  • 25hurry-up — | ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ adjective Etymology: from hurry up, v. 1. a. : of an emergency nature : rush hurry up call hurry up job b. : equipped t …

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  • 26hurry — I n. 1) in a hurry 2) a hurry to + inf. (we were in a hurry to finish) II v. (E) he hurried to respond to her letter * * * [ hʌrɪ] (E) he hurryied to respond to her letter in a hurry a hurry to + inf. (we were in a hurry to finish) …

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  • 27hurry — n. & v. n. (pl. ies) 1 a great haste. b (with neg. or interrog.) a need for haste (there is no hurry; what s the hurry?). 2 (often foll. by for, or to + infin.) eagerness to get a thing done quickly. v. ( ies, ied) 1 move or act with great or… …

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  • 28hurry up — Synonyms and related words: accelerate, bundle, bustle, chase, crack on, crowd, dash, dash off, dash on, dispatch, double time, drive on, expedite, festinate, forward, gain ground, get going, get moving, haste, hasten, hasten on, hie on, hurry,… …

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  • 29hurry — I. verb (hurried; hurrying) Etymology: perhaps from Middle English horyen Date: 1592 transitive verb 1. a. to carry or cause to go with haste < hurry them to the hospital > b. to impel to rash or precipitate action …

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  • 30hurry — hurryingly, adv. /herr ee, hur ee/, v., hurried, hurrying, n., pl. hurries. v.i. 1. to move, proceed, or act with haste (often fol. by up): Hurry, or we ll be late. Hurry up, it s starting to rain. v.t. 2. to drive, carry, or cause to move or&#8230; …

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