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Definition: Hurry |
HurryNoun1. 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". Verb1. 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) |
| Domain | Definition |
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) |
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Synonyms: HurrySynonyms: 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) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: Hurry |
| English words defined with "hurry": bolt, bolt out ♦ complaisant ♦ deliberateness, deliberation, Dispatch box ♦ haste, helter-skelter ♦ obliging, on the fly ♦ pell-mell, post, pressing ♦ run off, run out, rush away, rush off, rusher ♦ Scuddle, Sessa, Skelter, slowness, Speed pulley ♦ To bundle off, To go bet, To make haste, To post over ♦ unhurried, unhurriedness, urgent ♦ Whereret, Whurry. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "hurry": Burl, Burler ♦ day nine ♦ FUSS ♦ Go to the Wall ♦ hidden flag, HILL ♦ MERCURY ♦ Nimble as a Cat on a hot Bake-stone ♦ Rouen ♦ SCORCHER, Standing Orders, stat ♦ TELEGRAM. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "hurry": Whurry. (references) |
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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) | |
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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. |
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| "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." |
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| Author | Quotation |
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. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
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 |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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) |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Woodrow Wilson | 1913-1921 | But we were very heedless and in a hurry to be great. |
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| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 53.45% | 866 | 8,178 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 26.39% | 428 | 13,385 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 19.98% | 324 | 15,993 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.12% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (common) | 0.06% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,620 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Hurry | Last name | 200 | 35,545 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
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. | |
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Beginning with "hurry": hurry-scurry, Hurry-skurry, hurry-up breakfast. | |
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| 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 | 遽 (fast, suddenly), 趕忙 (hasten, make haste), 赶 (catch up, drive away), 遄 (go to and fro), 攛 (fling, rage, rush, stir up, throw), 仓促 (Hasty, hurriedly, Hurries, rush), 催 (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. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | buluh, dug . . . bad. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 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. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "hurry": hurrying. (additional references) | |
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"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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "hurry" (pronounced her"ē) |
| 2 | -er" ē | blurry, Burry, Currie, flurry, furry, gurry, murrey, Murry, scurry, slurry, Surrey, towery, worry. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
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. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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