hurry

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To move or act with speed or haste.
2. v. To cause to move or act with speed or haste: hurried the children to school.
3. v. To cause to move or act with undue haste; rush: was hurried into marriage.
4. v. To speed the progress or completion of; expedite. See Synonyms at speed.
5. n. The act or an instance of hurrying; hastened progress.
6. n. Activity or motion that is often unduly hurried; haste. See Synonyms at haste.
7. n. The need or wish to hurry; a condition of urgency: in no hurry to leave.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To hasten; urge forward or onward; impel to greater rapidity of movement or action.
2. To impel to violent or thoughtless action; urge to confused or imprudent activity.
3. To draw, as a corf or wagon, in a coal-mine.
4. Synonyms Hasten, Hurry (see hasten, v. i.); precipitate.
5. To flurry.
6. To move or act with haste.
7. To move or act with undue haste or with precipitation.
8. Synonyms Hasten, Hurry. See hasten, v. i.
9. n. The act of hurrying. The act of making haste; rapid movement or action; also, urgency; bustle; haste.
10. n. Excessive haste; precipitation; hence, agitation; confusion.
11. n. A timber staging with spouts running from it, used in loading vessels with coal.
12. n. In dram, music, a tremolando passage for violins or tympani in connection with an exciting situation.
13. n. Synonyms Haste (see hasten, v. i.), flurry, flutter.
14. n. In physical, a proposed unit of acceleration; an acceleration of one foot per second per second.

Wiktionary

1. n. Rushed action.
2. n. Urgency.
3. n. sports In American football, an incidence of a defensive player forcing the quarterback to act faster than the quarterback was prepared to, resulting in a failed offensive play.
4. v. To do things quickly.
5. v. Often with up, to speed up the rate of doing something.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To hasten; to impel to greater speed; to urge on.
2. v. To impel to precipitate or thoughtless action; to urge to confused or irregular activity.
3. v. To cause to be done quickly.
4. v. To move or act with haste; to proceed with celerity or precipitation.
5. n. The act of hurrying in motion or business; pressure; urgency; bustle; confusion.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a condition of urgency making it necessary to hurry
2. v. move very fast
3. v. urge to an unnatural speed
4. v. act or move at high speed
5. n. the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner
6. n. overly eager speed (and possible carelessness)