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Hurry

Definition: Hurry

Hurry

Noun

1. A condition of urgency making it necessary to hurry; "in a hurry to lock the door".

2. Overly eager speed (and possible carelessness); "he soon regretted his haste".

3. The act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner; "in his haste to leave he forgot his book".

Verb

1. Move very fast; "The runner zipped past us at breakneck speed".

2. Act or move at high speed; "We have to rush!".

3. Urge to an unnatural speed; "Don't rush me, please!".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "hurry" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1415. (references)

Note: Hurry \Hur"ry\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Hurried; Hurrying.]. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Hurry

DomainDefinition

Satire

HURRY, n. The dispatch of bunglers. Source: Devil's Dictionary.

Literature

Hurry The Mahouts cheer on their elephants by repeating ur-ré, the Arabs their camels by shouting ar-ré, the French their hounds by shouts of hare, the Germans their horses by the word hurs, the herdsmen of Ireland their cattle by shouting hurrish. (Welsh, gyru, to drive; Armenian, haura, to hasten; Latin, curro, to run; etc.)
Don't hurry, Hopkins. A satirical reproof to those who are not prompt in their payments. It is said that one Hopkins, of Kentucky, gave his creditor a promissory note on which was this memorandum, "The said Hopkins is not to be hurried in paying the above." Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Mining

A. Scot. A screen or sieve. b. To haul, pull, or push cars of coal in a mine c. A chute, slide, or pass as for ore in a mine, or for coal discharged from cars into vessels d. Gr. Brit. A wooden staging on a navigable river from which to loadvessels with coal. (references)

Multilingual Slang

Arabic (yel-la). (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Hurry

Synonyms: haste (n), hastiness (n), hurriedness (n), rushing (n), hasten (v), look sharp (v), rush (v), speed (v), travel rapidly (v), zip (v). (additional references)
Antonym: delay (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Hurry

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Excitability

Trepidation, perturbation, ruffle, hurry, fuss, flurry; fluster, flutter; pother, stew, ferment; whirl; buck fever; hurry-skurry, thrill; (feeling); state of excitement, fever of excitement; transport.

Excitation

Stimulate; exsuscitate; inspirit; spirit up, stir up, work up, pique; infuse life into, give new life to; bring new blood, introduce new blood; quicken; sharpen, whet; work upon; (incite); hurry on, give a fillip, put on one's mettle.

Feeling

Blush, suffusion, flush; hectic; tingling, thrill, turn, shock; agitation; (irregular motion); quiver, heaving, flutter, flurry, fluster, twitter, tremor; throb, throbbing; pulsation, palpitation, panting; trepidation, perturbation; ruffle, hurry of spirits, pother, stew, ferment; state of excitement.

Haste

Verb: haste, hasten; make haste, make a dash; Noun: hurry on, dash on, whip on, push on, press on, press forward; hurry, skurry, scuttle along, barrel along, bundle on, dart to and fro, bustle, flutter, scramble; plunge, plunge headlong; dash off; rush; (violence); express.

Noun: haste, urgency; despatch, dispatch; acceleration, spurt, spirt, forced march, rush, dash; speed, velocity; precipitancy, precipitation, precipitousness; Adjective: impetuosity; brusquerie; hurry, drive, scramble, bustle, fuss, fidget, flurry, flutter, splutter.

In haste, in a hurry; Noun: in hot haste, in all haste; breathless, pressed for time, hard pressed, urgent.

Be precipitate; Adjective: jump at, be in haste, be in a hurry; Noun: have no time, have not a moment to lose, have not a moment to spare; work against time.

Leisure

No hurry; no big rush; no deadline.

Motive

Enforce, force; impel; (push); propel; whip, lash, goad, spur, prick, urge; egg on, hound, hurry on; drag; exhort; advise; call upon; press; (request); advocate.

Taking

Take away, carry away, bear away, take off, carry off, bear off; adeem; abstract; hurry off with, run away with; abduct; steal; ravish; seize; pounce upon, spring upon; swoop to, swoop down upon; take by storm, take by assault; snatch, reave.

Velocity

Hurry; (hasten); accelerate, put on; quicken; quicken one's pace, mend one's pace; clap spurs to one's horse; make haste, make rapid strides, make forced marches, make the best of one's way; put one's best leg foremost, stir one's stumps, wing one's way, set off at a score; carry sail, crowd sail; go off like a shot, go like a shot, go ahead, gain ground; outstrip the wind, fly on the wings of the wind.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Hurry

English words defined with "hurry": bolt, bolt outcomplaisantdeliberateness, deliberation, Dispatch boxhaste, helter-skelterobliging, on the flypell-mell, post, pressingrun off, run out, rush away, rush off, rusherScuddle, Sessa, Skelter, slowness, Speed pulleyTo bundle off, To go bet, To make haste, To post overunhurried, unhurriedness, urgentWhereret, Whurry. (references)
Specialty definitions using "hurry": Burl, Burlerday nineFUSSGo to the Wallhidden flag, HILLMERCURYNimble as a Cat on a hot Bake-stoneRouenSCORCHER, Standing Orders, statTELEGRAM. (references)
Etymologies containing "hurry": Whurry. (references)

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Modern Usage: Hurry

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Can you hurry up. My horse is getting tired (True Lies; writing credit: Claude Zidi; Simon Michaël)

The world went and got itself in a big damn hurry. (The Shawshank Redemption; writing credit: Frank Darabont)

Hurry up, goldenrod (Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back; writing credit: George Lucas; Leigh Brackett)

If you hurry home we can have dinner together (Terminator 2: Judgment Day; writing credit: James Cameron; William Wisher Jr.)

Well, we're not in Medford, we're in a hurry. (Double Indemnity; writing credit: James M. Cain; Billy Wilder)

Lyrics

Lets Dunk It In A Hurry (Rock the Boat; performing artist: Aaliyah)

So hurry up and bring your jukebox money (Love Shack; performing artist: B-52'S)

Hurry, hurry don’t be late (THE MAIN EVENT/FIGHT; performing artist: Barbra Streisand)

In school i smacked cats in a hurry (Life Story; performing artist: Black Rob)

Well, I listen to the wind come howl, telling me I have to hurry (On The Road To Find Out; performing artist: Cat Stevens)

Clever

We occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry on as if nothing happened. (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

Hurry Up or I'll Be 30 (1973)

Please Hurry! (1969)

Hurry Sundown (1967)

Hare-Breadth Hurry (1963)

Wild About Hurry (1959)

Song Titles

You Can't Hurry Love (performing artist: Phil Collins)

You Can't Hurry Love (performing artist: The Supremes)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Hurry

DomainTitle

Books

  • Be Quick But Don't Hurry (reference)

  • Hurry Up, Franklin (Franklin Series) (reference)

  • Hurry, Hurry, Mary Dear (reference)

  • Quick Chocolate Fixes: 75 Fast and Easy Recipes for People Who Want Chocolate...in a Hurry! (reference)

  • Windows XP Headaches: How to Fix Common (and Not So Common) Problems in a Hurry (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Hurry

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Photo Album: Hurry

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What's your hurry -- must you go?. Credit: Library of Congress.

Hurry up an' help me close this exhibit! : it just ain't decent!. Credit: Library of Congress.

Ok, now hurry back for a big load!. Credit: Library of Congress.

Critical moments. Somebody better hurry --. Credit: Library of Congress.

Hurry!! Cull your hens, reduce feed bills. Credit: Library of Congress.

Grow up strong, grow quick my children, quick now, hurry ... Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Hurry
 

"Hurry Up" by Mike V/d Gaag
Commentary: "Someone in a hurry on a train station."
"Light in a hurry" by Matt 'Fox' Laskowski
Commentary: "A 3 second exposure. I litterally stood in a parking lot and spun around in circles while holding down the button."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Familiar Quotations: Hurry

AuthorQuotation

Benjamin Franklin

Fraud and deceit are ever in a hurry. Take time for all things. Great haste makes great waste.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Too great a hurry to discharge an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.

John Wesley

Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry.

Matthew Arnold

Journalism is literature in a hurry.
This strange disease of modern life with its brisk hurry and divided aims.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Order marches with weighty and measured strides. Disorder is always in a hurry.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Soren Kierkegaard

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

Wilbur Wright

If a man is in too big a hurry to give up an error he is liable to give up some truth with it.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Hurry

TitleAuthorQuote

Emma

Austen, Jane

She was in no hurry at all.

Sylvie and Bruno Concluded

Carroll, Lewis

And Bruno, having quite exhausted all his inventive faculty, by beginning in too great a hurry, quietly resigned himself to listening

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

The man who was in such a hurry was he whom we have seen struggling in such pitiable convulsions

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

He told his fingers to hurry up.

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

And a sense of hurry crept into them

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Hurry

SubjectTopicQuote

Political Economy

INDIA

The government has defended its position by arguing that India is in no hurry to complete full convertibility, especially given the crisis in East Asian economies and the need to strengthen the banking sector further. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Speeches: Hurry

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Woodrow Wilson

1913-1921But we were very heedless and in a hurry to be great.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Hurry

"Hurry" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 53.45% of the time. "Hurry" is used about 1,620 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)53.45%8668,178
Lexical Verb (infinitive)26.39%42813,385
Lexical Verb (base form)19.98%32415,993
Noun (proper)0.12%2245,945
Noun (common)0.06%1339,140
                    Total100.00%1,620N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Hurry

The following table summarizes the usage of "hurry" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
HurryLast name20035,545
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Hurry

Expressions using "hurry": a tearing hurry be in a hurry do smth. in a hurry do things in a hurry examine in a hurry hurry along hurry away hurry off hurry on hurry on! hurry out hurry up hurry up! i am in a hurry in a hurry in hurry no hurry tearing hurry there is no hurry to hurry up. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "hurry": hurry-scurry, Hurry-skurry, hurry-up breakfast.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Hurry

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
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per Day

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171

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4

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58

can hurry love lyrics supremes t

4

you can t hurry love

51

date.com hurry

4

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44

can hurry love supremes t

4

cant hurry love lyrics

30

can clark cole dorinda god hurry lyrics t

4

you cant hurry love

24

alabama hurry i in m

3

hurry dating

17

can collins hurry love phil t

3

curry in a hurry

13

hurry sickness

3

hurry up

11

alabama hurry im in lyrics

3

harrys hurry in

7

hurry i in lyrics m

3

sherry hurry

7

can chick dixie hurry love t

3

hurry i in m

6

don hurry i in know m t why

3

curry hurry

6

hurry in money

3

hurry verizon.net

5

cant chick dixie hurry love lyrics

2

can collins hurry love lyrics phil t

5

dating hurry up

2

passport in a hurry

5

hurry im in

2

hurry sundown

5

hurry offense up

2

cash hurry in loan need when

4

hurry dater

2

hurry potter

4

can diana hurry love ross t

2

can chick dixie hurry love lyrics t

4

done get hurry i in lyrics m things

2

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4

can hurry love song t

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Hurry

Language Translations for "hurry"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

haas (go fast, hare, haste, rush), gou maak (go fast, rush). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

shpejtoj (accelerate, fleet, get a move on, hasten, precipitate, quicken, speed), nxitoj (accelerate, bustle, chase, get a move on, hasten, hie, hotfoot, hurry up, hustle, pelt, post, run, skip, speed up), nxitim (acceleration, bustle, haste, hastiness, hustle, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitation, rapidity, rush), ngutje (hastiness, hustle, precipitance, precipitancy), ngutem (bustle, bustle about, gallop, hasten, hustle, rush, skip), ngutësi (emergence, emergency, hastening), ngut (haste, hasten, hustle, rush, urgency), ngus (hustle). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏متعجل (accelerant, fast, hasty, overhasty), ‏هرول (jog, run, rush, scurry, trot), ‏حث (actuate, admonish, debriefing, dub, encourage, encouragement, goad, gun, impel, incitation, incite, induce, induce to speak, inducement, interest, motivate, motivation, motive, persuade, precipitate, press, prod, prompt, prompting, propel, provocation, provoke, push on, recommend, rouse, solicit, solicitation, spur, stimulate, stimulation, stir, tempt), ‏تعجل (haste, scamp), ‏سرعة (alacrity, blast, career, despatch, dispatch, expedition, gait, haste, hastiness, lick, pace, pizzazz, promptitude, promptness, quickness, rapidity, smartness, speed, spurt, swiftness, tilt, velocity), ‏عجلة (expedition, haste, promptitude, quickness, urgency, wheel), ‏عجل (accelerate, advance, anticipate, bicker, bullock, calf, dash, expedite, hasten, hustle, precipitate, run, speed, speed up, tire, veal), ‏أسرع. (various references)

   

Aymara

  

jank'achaña (to hurry). (various references)

   

Basque

  

presatu (hurry to). (various references)

   

Blackfoot

  

oni'taki (to hurry). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

суматоха (bustle, commotion, flurry, helter-skelter, mix up, perturbation, pother, rumpus, stirabout), ускорявам (accelerate, activate, advance, expedite, force, forward, hasten, hurry up, hustle, precipitate, quicken, smarten up, speed up, trigger, urge, zip), карам да бърза (press, rush, whip on), нетърпение (eagerness, impatience), бързане (haste, hurry-scurry, rush, scurry), бързам (bustle about, fly, hasten, hie, hurry up, hustle, nip along, pelt, post), припряност (haste), избързвам (gain), изпращам бързо (rush, rush up, shoot). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

(fast, suddenly), 趕忙 (hasten, make haste), (catch up, drive away), (go to and fro), (fling, rage, rush, stir up, throw), 仓促 (Hasty, hurriedly, Hurries, rush), (expedite, press, prompt, urge). (various references)

   

Czech

  

uspíšit (accelerate, hasten, hurry along, hurry up, precipitate), urychlit (accelerate, expedite, forward, hurry along, speed, speed up, spur), spìchat (fling away, hasten, hie, hurry up, scurry, speed), spìch (bustle, haste, hurry-scurry, rush, speed), pospíchat (haste, post, press on, push on, rush), popohánìt (goad, spur on), kvap (precipitance), kvalt, chvat (clutch, expedition, grip, haste, hold). (various references)

   

Danish

  

skynde sig (go fast, rush). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

voortmaken (go fast, rush), spoed maken (go fast, rush), haast maken (go fast, rush). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

urĝiĝi (rush), urĝi sin, urĝi (press, urge), rapidi (go fast, rush). (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

skunda (press, urge). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

چاپیدن (Harry, Loot, Plunder, Rob), عجله کردن (Haste), عجله (Expediency, Haste, Hustle, Post, Snap, Speed), راندن (Booh, Dislodge, Drive, Force, Pilot, Poach, Rein, Repulse, Row, Steer, Stub, Unkennel, Whisk), شتابیدن , شتاب کردن (Pelt), شتاب (Dispatch, Haste, Hustle, Pelt, Speed, Tilt, Velocity), دستپاچگی , بستوه اوردن (Annoy, Beset, Harass, Hare, Harry, Haze, Pester, Plague, Worry), باشتاب انجام دادن . (various references)

   

Finnish

  

hyörinä (bustle, flurry), hoppu (haste, scurry), hätäisyys (haste, hastiness, impatience), hätäillä (act rashly, be anxious), hätä (anxiety, danger, distress, trouble), rientoaskel (hasten, speed), riento (hasten, speed), rientää (hasten, speed), kiiruhtaa (hasten, make haste), kiirehtiä (expedite, hasten, hurry on, make haste), kiire (haste, rush), kiidättää (speed), jouduttaa (accelerate, hasten, speed up, urge . . on). (various references)

   

French

  

se dépêcher (hurry up). (various references)

   

German

  

eile (expedition, haste, hastiness, hurriedness, hustle, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitation, rush, speed), eilen (be in a hurry, be pressing, be urgent, bustle, go fast, haste, hasten, hie, hustle, race, run, rush, scud, to hasten, to hurry, to scud), sich beeilen (be in a hurry, be pressing, be urgent, get a move on, hasten, hasting, hurry along, hurry up, to hurry up), schnell (apace, expeditious, fast, flying, hasty, prompt, quick, quickly, rapid, rapidly, rapids, slippy, smart, smartly, soon, spanking, speedily, speedy, swift, swiftly), Hast (haste, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitation, rashness, rush, scurries, speed). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

σπεύδω (buck up, haste, hasten, hie, hustle, rush, scurry, scurry about, speed), βιάζομαι (be in a hurry, hasten, hustle, in a hurry, make haste, rush), βιασύνη (haste, impetuosity, precipitation, rush). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

למהר (hasten, pelt, precipitate, push on, quicken, rush, speed), לעוש (make haste), לאוץ (hasten, make haste), לזרז (expedite, hasten, hurry up, hustle, precipitate, quicken, urge), להחיש (accelerate, expedite, hasten, speed up), להאיץ (accelerate, precipitate, press, quicken, speed up, urge), להחפז (chase, precipitate, rush), חישה (celerity, haste, quickness, swiftness), חופזניות (hastiness), חפזון (haste, hastiness, headiness, precipitancy, precipitation, rush), חפזה, הזדרזות (haste), דחיפות (immediacy, urgency), בהילות (alarm, haste, panic). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

sietség (despatch, diligence, dispatch, expedience, expediency, haste, hustle, scurry, scuttle, tearing hurry, trepidancy, trepidation, trepidity), sietés (expedience, expediency, scuttle). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

tergopoh (hurriedly, hustily), tergesa-gesa (bustle, cursorily, haste, hie, worry), kegopohan (haste), bergegasan. (various references)

   

Irish

  

brostaigh. (various references)

   

Italian

  

affrettarsi (go, go fast, hasten, hie, hurry up, hustle, rush, scramble, scurry, speed), fretta (haste, hastiness, helter-skelter, rush). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

草草 (brevity, rudeness), 草々 (brevity, rudeness), 倉皇  (bustle), 倉皇 (bustle). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

そうそう (attendance at a funeral, beginning, brevity, distinguished, early, eminent, facies, funeral, inauguration, quickly, rudeness), そうこう (achievement, armored, bustle, conduct, deportment, document transmission, draft, efficacy, fruition, hatch, hatchway, manuscript, meanwhile, notes, plain food, rousing, running a wheeled vehicle, simple living, success, traveling). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

급함 (Hurries). (various references)

   

Manx

  

siyraghey (accelerate, acceleration, bustling about, expedite, expedition, hasten, hastening, hurry along, hurry up, hustle), siyr (bustle, haste, hurrying), quishan, jannoo siyr (hurrying), glistyr (agitation, enema, haste, squall), driss (haste, rush, scurry, spurt). (various references)

   

Maya

  

lepp (to hurry). (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

hastverk (haste), haste, hast (urgency). (various references)

   

Occitan

  

s'afanar. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

urryhay.(various references)

   

Polish

  

ponaglać (press, urge), być pilnym (press, urge), śpieszyć się (go fast, rush). (various references)

   

Portuguese

  

pressa (ado, bustle, haste, hastiness, hustle, rustle, scurry, speed), apressar (accelerate, anticipate, bustle, expedite, haste, hasten, hustle, press, quicken, rush, speed, urge). (various references)

   

Portuguese Brazilian

  

pressa. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

pripi (be rash), accelera (accelerate, dispatch, expedite, force, forward, hasten, mend, precipitate, push, push on, quicken, smarten up, speed up, wing), alerga (career, chase, collide, course, elapse, flow, fly, go, go the pace, haste, hasten, race, run, rush, scamper, scour, spank, urge, walk), grãbi (accelerate, anticipate, bustle, expedite, force, forward, hasten, hustle, mend one's pace, precipitate, press, push, push on, quicken, rush, smarten up, speed, spur, wing), gråbi (press, urge), grabã (cursoriness, dispatch, expedition, forwardness, haste, hastiness, pelt, press, quickness, rapture, readiness, rush, scamper, speed), precipita (deposit, hasten, precipitate, rush), îmboldi (actuate, goad, hound on, impel, press, prompt, spur, stimulate, urge into), pripã (haste, hastiness, quickness, rush), zori (bustle, cock crow, crowd, daybreak, daylight, dayspring, hasten, hustle, morning, press, quicken, reveille, rush, spur, spur on, urge), repezealã (haste), repezi (hit, throw), se grãbi (bucket, bundle, fly, gallop, get jerk, hasten, make haste, rush, speed, spur, whisk along), se gråbi (go fast, rush), urgenţã (instancy, urgency), zor, precipitare (haste, hurrying, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitation). (various references)

   

Romany

  

sigyaràv (to hurry). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

спешка (flurry, haste, press, time pressure), спешить спешка, торопиться (be in a hurry, hasten, hie, hurry up, look alive, make haste), торопить (hasten, hurry up, rush), нетерпение (impatience), быстро вести или тащить, поспешный (hasty, heady, hurried, premature, rash, rough and ready, slapdash), подгонять (customize, dovetail, goad, match, pepped, pinch, urge, wing), подогнать (adapt, urge on). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

griobhag, greas (go fast, hasten, incite to speed : greas ort, rush, urge), famhsgal, fannsgal, drip (See <A HREF="mf04.html#driop">driop</A>), drifeag, deannal (conflict, haste, onset), cabhag (haste), ùinich (bustle). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

hitati (rush, scud), užurbati (rush, speed up), užurbanost (ado, bustle, flurry, hastiness), užurban (bustling, busy, hasty, hurried), poterati (drive), požuriti (hasten, hurry up, rush, speed up, step on), jurnjava (chasing, clutter, rush, scurry), žuriti se (hotfoot, rush), žuriti (bustle, hie, rush), žurba (bustle, bustling, haste, hurry-scurry, rush, scramble, swiftness). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

apresurarse (bucket, bustle, go fast, hasten, jump at, press forward, press on, quicken, rush, speed). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

skynda (hasten, hotfoot, scud, scurry, scuttle, zip), ila (career, flit, fly, hustle, scud), hasta (hasten, hie), hast (dispatch, haste), fjäsk (bustle, captation, flannels, fuss, servility), brådska (bustle, haste, hastiness, hastle, precipitance, precipitation, press, rush). (various references)

   

Thai

  

รีบ, ความรีบร้อน. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

hızlandırmak (accelerate, expedite, force the pace, ginger, ginger up, hasten, jazz, jazz up, pour it on, pour on the speed, precipitate, quicken, Rev, rev up, speed, speed up, whip up, wing), hızlan (faster, quicker, swing, swing it), telaş (ado, alarm, bustle, commotion, directness, discomposure, disturbance, excitement, ferment, fever, flap, flurry, flutter, fume, fuss, fussiness, haste, hastiness, helter-skelter, panic, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitateness, precipitation, pucker, racket, ruffle, rush, stir, storm, taking, tingle, tizzy, to-do, turmoil, whirl), sıkıştırmak (astringe, be urgent with smb., bear against, besiege, bombard, bottle up, clamp, clamp down, clinch, come down on, compact, compress, constrict, crowd, crush, drive smb. to the wall, dun, force, grind, grip, heckle, hustle, impact, impress, incarcerate, jam, jam in, lean on, lean upon, oppress, pin, pin down, pinch, ply, ply with, press, press for, press smb. close, push, push smb. to the wall, rush, shut in, slip into, squeeze, straiten, stress, tighten, tuck, wedge, weigh), aceleye getirmek (do smth. in a hurry, hurry up, rush, rush in, rush into), acele ettirmek (bundle, bustle up, hasten, hurry up, hustle, rush, rush smb. off one's feet), acele etmek (be in a hurry, buck up, come along, drive, get a move on, hasten, hie, hotfoot, hotfoot it, hurry up, hustle, make haste, put a jerk in it, rush, scour, scour about, scurry, shake a leg, step on it, streak, trot), acele (bustle, discomposedly, dispatch, early, expedition, fast, flying, haste, hastily, hasty, hotfoot, hurried, hurriedly, hurry up, in a hurry, in haste, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitate, press, pressing, quick, rapid, rush, speedy, swift, too previous, urgency, urgent, whirl), çabuk olmak (be quick, buck up, hurry up, hustle, make haste, put a jerk in it), çabuk (apace, be quick, come, come on, early, expeditious, fast, hasty, hurry up, in double time, in good time, light footed, lissom, lissome, nimble, precipitous, presto, prompt, pronto, quick, quick-action, quickly, rapid, ready, sharp, snappy, soon, speedy, swift, swiftly). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

howlykmak, gyssamak, gyssagara (haste), eсmek (be directed, rush), alсasamak (make haste). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

тривожити (annoy, bustle, discommode, trouble), швидше (be quick, first, hurry up, rather, sooner), квапливість (haste, hastiness, precipitation, random), нетерпіння (impatience), підганяти (bustle, fit on, flog, goad, prod, push, touch up, whip), прискорювати (accelerate, advance, anticipate, expedite, forward, hasten, precipitate, push, rattle through, speed, speed up, streamline, swiften), поспіх (huddle, press, random), поспішати (be in haste, bustle, hasten, hie, push forward, scurry, speed, swiften). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

hối hả, sãn lòng (like, minded), sự vội vàng (bustle, haste, hastiness, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitateness, precipitation), sự hấp tấp (overhaste), sự hối hả (bustle, press). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

prysuro (hasten), prysurdeb (busyness, haste), mwstro (fidget), ffrystio (hasten), ffrwst (bustle, haste), brysio (hasten), brys (haste). (various references)

   

Zulu

  

-phuthuma (press, urge), -jahe (press, urge). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Hurry

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Sumerian3100 BCE-2500 BCE

buluh, dug . . . bad. (various references)

Latin500 BCE-Modern

adcelera, adcelerare, adceleraret, adcelerat, adceleravit, cucurrerint, cucurrerit, cucurrero, cucurrerunt, cucurri, cucurrisset, cucurrit, curram, curramus, currat, curre, currebant, currebas, currebat, currebatis, curremus, currendam, currendum, currens, current, currentem, currentes, currenti, currentis, currentium, currere, currerem, curret, curris, currit, currite, curro, currunt, cursu, cursum, cursus, decurrant, decurrens, decurrent, decurrentes, decurrentis, decurrere, decurrit, decurrunt, festînâ, festina, festinabant, festinabat, festinabit, festinabo, festinans, festinant, festinantes, festinare, festinarent, festinaret, festinas, festinat, festinata, festinate, festinatione, festinationem, festinato, festinatoque, festinatum, festinatur, festinaverunt, festinavi, festinavimus, festinavit, festinavitque, festinemus, festinent, festines, festinet, festino, maturavit, propera, properabunt, properans, properant, properante, properantes, properarent, properat, properate, properaverunt, properes, rapere, raperent, rapiant, rapias, rapiat, rapiatur, rapiebat, rapiemur, rapiens, rapient, rapientem, rapientes, rapientis, rapiet, rapietur, rapit, rapite, rapitur, rapiunt, rapta, raptam, rapti, raptis, rapto, raptus, rapueram, rapuerant, rapuerat, rapuerit, rapuerunt, rapui, rapuissent, rapuit, vadam, vadant, vadas, vadat, vade, vadens, vadent, vades, vadet, vadimus, vadis, vadit, vadite, vado, vadunt, vasi. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Hurry

Derivations

Words beginning with "hurry": hurrying. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Hurry" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: durry, ghurry, hagry, Harrhy, herry, hirry, hiry, hiryu, hogry, horgy, hormy, horra, Horrey, Horry, hory, Hruby, Huari, hur, Huray, Huri, hurre, Hurree, Hurrel, hurriya, Hurroy, hurrye, hurty, hurtya, qurry, urri. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Hurry"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "hurry" (pronounced her"ē)
2-er" ēblurry, Burry, Currie, flurry, furry, gurry, murrey, Murry, scurry, slurry, Surrey, towery, worry.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Hurry

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "h-r-r-u-y"

-3 letters: uh.

 Words containing the letters "h-r-r-u-y"
 

+1 letter: hurray.

 

+2 letters: hurrays.

 

+3 letters: chirrupy, hurrayed, hurrying, roughdry.

 

+4 letters: currishly, hurraying, hurriedly, hyperpure, pyrethrum, shrubbery.

 

+5 letters: bunchberry, chartulary, churchyard, pyrethrums, rubythroat, squirarchy, yarborough.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Images: Digital Art
9. Quotations: Familiar
10. Quotations: Fiction
11. Quotations: Non-fiction
12. Quotations: Speeches
13. Usage Frequency
14. Names: Frequency
15. Expressions
16. Expressions: Internet
17. Translations: Modern
18. Translations: Ancient
19. Derivations
20. Rhymes
21. Anagrams
22. Bibliography


  

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