To hurry is to rush, or to move quickly. If you're late for a movie and you don't want to miss the beginning, you'll have to hurry into the theater, not stopping to buy popcorn.

If you are in a hurry to do something, you need or want to do something quickly. If you do something in a hurry, you do it quickly or suddenly. Kate was in a hurry to grow up, eager for knowledge and โ€ฆ

Hurry definition: To move or act with speed or haste.

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haste, hurry, speed, expedition, dispatch mean quickness in movement or action. haste applies to personal action and implies urgency and precipitancy and often rashness.

Hurry refers to an urgent need or desire to act quickly, swiftly or promptly, usually due to time constraints or pressure. It can also refer to the action of moving or proceeding with haste or speed.

a. easily: you won't beat him in a hurry. b. willingly: we won't go there again in a hurry.

5 days agoย ยท Verb hurry (third-person singular simple present hurries, present participle hurrying, simple past and past participle hurried) (intransitive) To do things quickly.

to (cause to) move, proceed, or act with haste: [no object] He hurried into town. [~ + to + verb] She hurried to help him when he fell. [~ + up] Could you please hurry up? [~ + object] The outfielder โ€ฆ

HURRY definition: to move, proceed, or act with haste (often followed byup ). See examples of hurry used in a sentence.

to (cause to) move, proceed, or act with haste: [no object] He hurried into town. [~ + to + verb] She hurried to help him when he fell. [~ + up] Could you please hurry up? [~ + object] The outfielder โ€ฆ

HURRY definition: to move, proceed, or act with haste (often followed byup ). See examples of hurry used in a sentence.

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