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hurry-skurried

hurry-skurried is the simple past and past participle of hurry-skurry.

Meaning of hurry-skurry

Verb

hurry-skurry (third-person singular simple present hurry-skurries, present participle hurry-skurrying, simple past and past participle hurry-skurried)

  1. (archaic) To hurry; act hurriedly.
    • […] Besides, you are perfectly able to protect Telemachus, and to see him safely home again, while the suitors have to come hurry-skurrying back without having killed him.1900, Samuel Butler, transl. The Odyssey, Book V., page 62

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Questions about hurry-skurried

What is hurry-skurried the simple past and past participle of?
Hurry-skurried is the simple past and past participle of hurry-skurry.

Words near hurry-skurried in the dictionary

  1. hurry-furry merger
  2. hurry-scurried
  3. hurry-scurries
  4. hurry-scurry
  5. hurry-scurrying
  6. hurry-skurried
  7. hurry-skurries
  8. hurry-skurry
  9. hurry-skurrying
  10. hurry-up offense
  11. hurry-up offenses

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