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hurry along — index dispatch (send off), hasten Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

hurry along — see hurry up …   English dictionary

hurry — hur|ry1 [ hʌri ] verb intransitive ** to do something or move somewhere very quickly: We must hurry or we shall be late back. Alec had to hurry home, but I stayed on. hurry along/through/into: She hurried along the corridor toward his office. He… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

hurry — 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,… …   Moby Thesaurus

hurry — [[t]hʌ̱ri, AM hɜ͟ːri[/t]] hurries, hurrying, hurried 1) VERB If you hurry somewhere, you go there as quickly as you can. [V prep/adv] Claire hurried along the road... [V prep/adv] When she finished work she had to hurry home and look after her… …   English dictionary

hurry — I UK [ˈhʌrɪ] / US verb Word forms hurry : present tense I/you/we/they hurry he/she/it hurries present participle hurrying past tense hurried past participle hurried ** [intransitive] to do something or to move somewhere very quickly We must hurry …   English dictionary

hurry 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… …   English dictionary

hurry 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,… …   Moby Thesaurus

hurry — 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… …   Useful english dictionary

hurry 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… …   English dictionary

hurry — hur|ry1 [ˈhʌri US ˈhə:ri] v past tense and past participle hurried present participle hurrying third person singular hurries [Date: 1600 1700; Origin: Probably copying the action] 1.) [I and T] to do something or go somewhere more quickly than… …   Dictionary of contemporary English