Meaning

A rushed action..

Definitions by Sense

1. A rushed action.
2. An urgency.
3. (American football) An incidence of a defensive pressure that forces the quarterback to throw the ball earlier than intended or rush their decision, often leading to an incomplete pass or failed play.
4. (music) A tremolando passage for violins, etc., accompanying an exciting situation.
5. (intransitive) To do things quickly.
6. (intransitive) Often with up, to speed up the rate of doing something.
7. (transitive) To cause to be done quickly.
8. (transitive) To hasten; to impel to greater speed; to urge on.

Example Sentences

Why are you in such a big hurry?

At length, one night, when the company by ſome accident broke up much ſooner than ordinary, ſo that the candles were not half burnt out, ſhe was not able to reſiſt the temptation, but reſolved to have them ſome way or other. Accordingly, as ſoon as the hurry was over, and the ſervants, as ſhe thought, all gone to ſleep, ſhe ſtole out of her bed, and went down ſtairs, naked to her ſhift as ſhe was, with a deſign to ſteal them […]

There is no hurry on that paperwork.

At Alabama, Jedrick Wills Jr. anchored the right side of the offensive line for two years, allowing only one sack and three-and-a-half quarterback hurries on 714 snaps last season.

He's hurrying because he's late.

There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.[…]Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors. Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place.

When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. He had him gripped firmly by the arm, since he felt it was not safe to let him loose, and he had no immediate idea what to do with him.

If you don't hurry (up) you won't finish on time.

Word Forms

• hurries
• hurrying
• hurried

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Use hurry when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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