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to drive, carry, or cause to move or perform with speed. Synonyms: hasten. to hasten; urge forward (often followed by up ). Synonyms: hustle, expedite, quicken, accelerate. Antonyms: slow, delay. to impel or perform with undue haste: to hurry someone into a decision.
to move or do things more quickly than normal or to make someone do this: to hurry away/ home. Please hurry, the train is about to leave. [ + to do sth ] We had to hurry to get there on time. Fewer examples. I heard a crash and hurried into the kitchen. The telephone rang and she hurried to pick it up. He hurried down the corridor.
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English hur‧ry1 /ˈhʌri $ ˈhɜːri/ S3 W3 verb (hurried, hurrying, hurries) 1 [ intransitive, transitive] to do something or go somewhere more quickly than usual, especially because there is not much time SYN rush If we hurry, we’ll get there in time. I hate having to hurry a meal.
the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner. synonyms: haste, rush, rushing. see more. noun. overly eager speed (and possible carelessness) synonyms: haste, hastiness, hurriedness, precipitation. see more. noun. a condition of urgency making it necessary to hurry.
1[intransitive]to do something more quickly than usual because there is not much timesynonymrushYou'll have to hurry if you want to catch that train.The kids hurried to open their presents.In spoken English hurry can be used with and plus another verb, instead of with to and the infinitive, especially to tell someone to do something quickly:Hurr...
(informal) used to say that somebody does not want to do something again because it was not pleasant or fun. I won't be going there again in a hurry—the food was terrible. See hurry in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary.
1. (often foll by: up) to hasten (to do something); rush. 2. (often foll by: along) to speed up the completion, progress, etc, of. n. 3. haste. 4. urgency or eagerness. 5. in a hurry informal. a. easily: you won't beat him in a hurry. b. willingly: we won't go there again in a hurry.
