hurry

Pronunciation

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Verb

Plain form hurry

Third-person singular hurries

Past tense hurried

Past participle hurried

Present participle hurrying

1. (transitive & intransitive) If you hurry, you move or work quickly.

   After the speech, they hurried him out the door to the waiting car.

   I woke up late and hurried through breakfast.

   My mother urged me to hurry. "You'll be late", she cried, "If you don't hurry'!

See also

• in a hurry