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hie

/haɪ/

hie verb: to hasten; to go quickly, to hurry.

Verb

hie (third-person singular simple present hies, present participle hying or hieing, simple past and past participle hied)

  1. (intransitive, poetic) To hasten; to go quickly, to hurry.
    • But after her lover Amyntas hied.1599, “Fair Phyllis”, John Farmer (music)
    • Hath pleased you, and eased you, and sweet slumber seized you. And now to bed I hie.1605, “Rest Sweet Nymphs”, Francis Pilkington (music)
  2. (poetic, reflexive) To hurry (oneself).
    • My husband hies him home.c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
    • Some have conjectured hastily that all Southerners in town hie themselves to cafés at nightfall.1906, O. Henry, A Cosmopolite in a Café
  3. (transitive) To urge (a horse) to the left with a cry of "hie".
    Antonyms:
    hup

Interjection

  1. (dialectal) A call to turn a horse to the left.
    Antonyms:
    hup

hie meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

hie in Tamil

வேகப்படுத்த, விரைந்து செல்ல

hie in Urdu

جلد چلنا, جلدی کرنا

hie in Malayalam

hurry, hasten, be quick
വേഗംപോകുക, ധൃതിയിൽ ചെയ്യുക, ധൃതികൂട്ടുക, വേഗപ്പെടുത്തുക, തിരക്കുകൂട്ടുക, വേഗം ചെയ്യുക

hie in Kannada

ಚುರುಕಾಗಿ ಹೋಗು, ಪದರು

Examples of hie in a sentence

  • The youth, returning to his mistress, hies.1717, William Congreve, Samuel Croxall, John Dryden, Laurence Eusden, John Ozell, “Book X”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […]...
  • At break of morn she hies to yonder abbey1781, Horace Walpole, The Mysterious Mother, Act 1 Scene 2:

Antonyms of hie

Forms of hie

third-person singular presenthies
present participlehying
present participlehieing
past participlehied
pasthied
alternative form (obsolete)heye
alternative form (obsolete)high

Past tense of hie: hied

Origin of hie

From Middle English hien, hyen, highen, heiȝen, hiȝen, from Old English hīgian (“to hie, hasten, strive”), from Proto-West Germanic *hīgōn, from Proto-Germanic *hīgōną (“to breathe, snort”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱēygʰ- (“swift, fierce, violent”). Cognate with Dutch hijgen (“to pant”), German heichen (“to choke, gasp for breath”), Danish hige (“to aspire, long”), Latin cieō (“set in motion, invoke, provoke”), Ancient Greek κινέω (kinéō, “move, set in motion”).

Words formed from hie

Phrases with hie

Words that rhyme with hie

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Questions about hie

What does hie mean?
Hie means to hasten; to go quickly, to hurry.
What is hie in Tamil?
Hie in Tamil is வேகப்படுத்த, விரைந்து செல்ல. See Hie meaning in Tamil.
How do you use hie in a sentence?
The youth, returning to his mistress, hies.
What part of speech is hie?
Hie can be a verb or an interjection.
How do you pronounce hie?
Hie is pronounced /haɪ/.
What is the past tense of hie?
The past tense of hie is hied.

Words near hie in the dictionary

  1. hidrosis
  2. hidrotic
  3. hidrotics
  4. HIDs
  5. hidy
  6. hie
  7. Hieber
  8. Hiebers
  9. Hiebert
  10. Hieberts
  11. hied

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hie (page history and authors); hie (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); hie (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); hie (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); hie (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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