hurry
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
Middle English horyed ‘rushed, impelled’, frequentative of hurren ‘to vibrate rapidly, buzz’, from Proto-Germanic *hurzanan ‘to rush’ (compare Middle High German hurren ‘to hasten’, Norwegian hurre ‘to whirl around’), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱers-, *ḱors- (“to run, hurry”) (compare Welsh carrog ‘torrent’, Latin currere ‘to run’, Tocharian A/B kursär/kwärsar ‘league; course’, Lithuanian karsiù ‘to go quickly’). Related to horse, rush.
[edit] Pronunciation
[edit] Noun
hurry (countable and uncountable; plural hurries)
- Rushed action.
- Why are you in such a big hurry?
- Urgency.
- There is no hurry on that paperwork.
- (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.
[edit] Derived terms
[edit] Translations
rushed action
(American football) an incidence of a defensive player forcing the quarterback to act faster than the quarterback was prepared to
[edit] Verb
hurry (third-person singular simple present hurries, present participle hurrying, simple past and past participle hurried)
- To do things quickly.
- He's hurrying because he's late.
- Often with up, to speed up the rate of doing something.
- If you don't hurry you wont finish on time.
[edit] Synonyms
- See also Wikisaurus:rush
[edit] Translations
to do things quickly
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to speed up the rate
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