Hurry
Verb
Pronunciation and accent: hʌrɪ
Etymology: maybe of imitative origin
Preterite tense: hurried
Preterite participle: hurried
Present participle: hurrying
Transitively:
First definition: obsolete acceptation: to agitate or excite.
Second definition: to cause (someone) to act hurriedly; to urge to a hurried action; to cause a hurry in (an animated being)
Antonyms: to retard
It may be approximately translated by apresurar, in Spanish; presser, in French; affrettare, in Italian.
***With the preposition into, followed by a noun, designative of the hurried action:
[…] how perfectly her vagina seemed to fit my prick. A throbbing grip of her cunt hurried me into action.
Walter (My secret life)
[…] passion has hurried me into a description which I meant to have deferred till you could observe him awhile for yourself.
Margaret Holford (Warbeck of Wolfsteïn)
[…] her zeal often degenerated into a culpable excess, and hurried her into acts of intolerance.
William Coxe (History of the House of Austria)
***Reflexively:
"Miss Burney," cried she, smiling with a look of congratulation, "Mamma says the snuff is extremely well mixed; and she has sent another box to be filled."
I had no more ready. She begged me not to mind, and not to hurry myself, for she would wait till it was done.
Fanny Burney (Diary and Letters…)
[…] I did not hurry myself, and walked leisurely along beneath the awnings, stopping occasionally to gaze at the heaps of goods which were displayed in the stores.
Charles Briggs (The adventures of Harry Franco)
As I have wrote you two such long letters lately, my dear Hal, I did not hurry myself to answer your last.
Horace Walpole (Private correspondence)
From her window, she had seen Fitzhenry out before the house, and she hurried herself to be in the breakfast-room before his return.
Lady Bury (A marriage..)
Third definition Particularly: to make to move or go (someone) in a hurry; to urge to a hurried locomotion.
A maid was making my bed, and I hurried her out of my room.
Walter (My secret life)
Our drivers, with their usual caution and regard for our necks, were hurrying us forward at full gallop over a bridge.
Arthur Broke (Sketches in Spain and Morocco)
[…] Germanus himself was hurried along by the crowds, who rushed to the palace […]
Edward Gibbon (The history… of the Roman Empire)
***With the preposition into, followed by a noun, designative of the place:
[…] the person who had for an instant appeared at the upper window, rushed out, and calling Madelaine by name, seized her by the arm, and hurried her into the Palace.
Alexis Chamerovzow (Philip of Lutetia)
[…] he hurried me into the chaise, observing that we should be late home, and the nights were cold and dark.
William Sewell (Ursula)
***With the preposition to, followed by a noun, designative of the place:
Aunt Hatty was dreadfully frightened, and hurried me to a warm room to change my wet clothes.
Graham's Illustrated Magazine of Literature, vol. 49
[…] the boy was placed in a carriage and hurried away to Rome.
Harper’s Magazine
Fourth definition to take, transfer, send or carry (something) with excessive haste
On ascertaining that she [the boat] was actually bound for Nashville, with great eagerness we paid our first-class bill, and hurried our baggage on board.
Frederick Olmsted (A Journey Through Texas)
All night long were we impelled by the whirling winds and waves without knowing whither they were hurrying us, until […] the captain declared his belief that we had been driven to the southward of Crete.
Horace Smith (Tales of the Early Ages)
Fifth definition: a. To cause (an action, progress, etc.) to be hurriedly made; to make a hurry of; to hasten the preparation of. b. To execute (a purpose, intention, etc.) hurriedly.
Synonyms: to hasten, accelerate, quicken, speed
Antonym: to slow
When the Indians closed upon us, we exerted our utmost efforts to drive them off with our swords, and then hurried our march to get over the causeway as soon as possible.
Robert Kerr (… Voyages and Travels)
This movement of the natives made us suspicious of no very friendly intentions on their part, and hurried our return to the boat.
Philip King (… Western Coasts…) vol. I
They hurried their departure before Nicuesa, and setting all sail on their caravel, hastened back to Darien.
Washington Irving (Voyages and Discoveries…)
Sixth definition: to put hurriedly (something) on, away, etc.
A large crowd the next morning had assembled in the neighbourhood. The open space in front of house was thickly covered with Indians […]. I hurried on my clothes with as much despatch as possible, and went down among them.
William Simms (The book of my lady)
Intransitively:
Definition: (of someone) to act hurriedly or with excessive haste. Particularly, to locomote with evident haste or velocity
Synonyms: to speed, hasten
Antonyms: to slow, delay, tarry
It may be approximately translated by apresurarse, in Spanish; se hâter, in French; affrettarsi, in Italian.
I hurried home, procured a telescope, and returned to the rock.
Edgar Poe
The wind had entirely ceased, but it was evident that we were still hurrying on to the southward, under the influence of a powerful current.
Edgar Poe
‘I would rather you did not mention it to them’, said Harry hurrying over his words.
Charles Dickens (Oliver Twist)
He had seen Rainsford hurry out of the house and make for the wood.
James Paulding (Westward ho!)
The Baron hurried into the open air.
Edgar Poe
Having said this, the worthy old lady hurried back into the parlour again.
Charles Dickens (Oliver Twist)
Hurrying into the room, [Mrs. Corney] threw herself, in a breathless state, on a chair by the fireside.
Charles Dickens (Oliver Twist)
He received the money, and the trinkets, which his mother had not worn for thirty ears, and hurried from the house.
John Mackay (Tales of the Borders)
Cava, having thrown her robe round her, and covered herself with her veil, in trepidation hurried from the palace.
Augusta Stuart (Cava of Toledo)
***With the preposition to, followed by a noun, designative either of the place to which the hurrier goes, or of the action about to be perfomed:
“ Where is the carriage?” said she, hurrying to the door.
Elizabeth Landon (The Complete Works)
Olimpia awakes, and, finding herself alone, hurries to the beach.
John Dunlop (History of Roman Literature)
My father and Hazlewood hurried to the front door to demand who they were, and what was their business.
Walter Scott (Waverley Novels)
Let us hurry to the walls.
Edgar Poe
[…] it is only the voice of his trusty attendant, who, fancying from the clamor, that his master is hard beset, is hurrying to the rescue.
The Ladies' Companion, Volúmenes 14-15
Let me hurry to a conclusion.
Edgar Poe
Now hurry back to school and say you met me, but that I was in a great hurry.
Bret Harte (The Three Partners)
Dinner over, we hurried upstairs, and we went naked to bed.
Walter (My secret life)
[…] they hurried towards Annette's room, which was in a distant part of the castle.
Ann Radcliffe (The Mysteries of Udolpho)
In this resolution, she seized a lamp, that burned at the foot of the stair-case, and hurried towards the secret passage.
Horace Walpole (The Castle of Otranto)
Words derived from hurry: hurried, hurriedly, hurriedness, hurrier
