Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Moving or acting rapidly.
  • adjective Required to move or act more rapidly; rushed.
  • adjective Done in great haste.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Done in a hurry; exhibiting hurry.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Urged on; hastened; going or working at speed
  • adjective Done in a hurry; hence, imperfect; careless.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective  Done in a hurry; rushed.
  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of hurry.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective moving rapidly or performed quickly or in great haste

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Examples

  • After that, I knew it would be only a question of time until they would trace you here, and I hurried; oh, I _hurried_!

    The Price Francis Lynde 1893

  • Callahan said that extends to the actual process of electing a new speaker, which she described as hurried and secretive.

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  • Williams, who had hurried from the floor for medical treatment, came back out to shoot the free throws with his eye already severely swollen.

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  • When he saw them, he hurried from the entrance of his tent to meet them and bowed low to the ground.

    Your Right Hand Thief 2008

  • Well, hurried is a relative term, since wading through such masses of people was not quick.

    Breakfast in Bed desayunoencama 2004

  • He spoke in hurried gasps, as though he had been running violently and far.

    Whose Body? Dorothy Leigh 1923

  • The six o'clock whistles still reverberated when Sam Arkin hurried down the factory stairs and out to the corner where he was to meet Shenah Pessah.

    Hungry Hearts 1920

  • She was very still for a moment, smiled, trembled from head to foot, blushed scarlet, took her mother by the hand, and without a word hurried to the house.

    The Clansman An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan Thomas Dixon 1905

  • Sumner could never have told very precisely what passed after the verdict had been given, save that as in a dizzy dream he heard applause within and cheers without; then he saw the fetters on the wrists of General Benson and saw him hurried from the room between two officers, followed by Major Madison and Aurelia.

    Hagar's Daughter: A Story of Southern Caste Prejudice Pauline Elizabeth 1902

  • But as Edwin hurried Louise away, the look that passed between the two young men was enough to blot out henceforward all friendship, all brotherhood.

    John Halifax, Gentleman 1897

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