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HURRIED

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 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Moving rapidly or performed quickly or in great haste

Example:

a hurried job

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

fast; flying; quick (hurried and brief)

hasty; headlong (excessively quick)

hasty; overhasty; precipitant; precipitate; precipitous (done with very great haste and without due deliberation)

helter-skelter; pell-mell (with undue hurry and confusion)

rush; rushed (done under pressure)

Also:

fast (acting or moving or capable of acting or moving quickly)

Antonym:

unhurried (relaxed and leisurely; without hurry or haste)

Derivation:

hurriedness (overly eager speed (and possible carelessness))

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Past simple / past participle of the verb hurry

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 Context examples: 

And with the same grave countenance he hurried through his breakfast and drove to the police station, whither the body had been carried.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I remembered, shuddering, the mad enthusiasm that hurried me on to the creation of my hideous enemy, and I called to mind the night in which he first lived.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The clerk hurried away in horror; but, ere he had gone many paces, he heard a sudden, sullen thump, with a choking, whistling sound at the end of it.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It’s about that I’ve hurried down.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The inspector hurried away on the instant to make inquiries about the page, while Holmes and I returned to Baker Street for breakfast.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then she hurried away with her lover.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

At the hotel he hurried up to Brissenden's room, and hurried down again.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Captain Wentworth now hurried off to get everything ready on his part, and to be soon followed by the two ladies.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

It was no time for thought; she hurried on, slipped with the least possible noise through the folding doors, and without stopping to look or breathe, rushed forward to the one in question.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

They hurried on, and were speedily at Randalls.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)