hurry up
hurry up verb: to hurry; to increase the speed of doing something.
Verb
hurry up (third-person singular simple present hurries up, present participle hurrying up, simple past and past participle hurried up)
- To hurry; to increase the speed of doing something.
- "Oh, I think I'll just give a look to see if Geoffrey is in sight yet and hurry him up if he is," she called back.1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London
- Synonyms:
- get a move on, get one's skates on, hurry up the cakes
hurry up meaning in Tamil, Telugu, Malay and Vietnamese
hurry up in Tamil
- சர்ப்ப
hurry up in Telugu
- hurry up; let's start; get going
- పద pada
hurry up in Malay
- go faster
- cepatlah
hurry up in Vietnamese
- go faster
- mau lên, nhanh lên, vội lên
Synonyms of hurry up
Forms of hurry up
| third-person singular present | hurries up |
|---|---|
| present participle | hurrying up |
| past participle | hurried up |
| past | hurried up |
Words formed from hurry up
Questions about hurry up
- What does hurry up mean?
- Hurry up means to hurry; to increase the speed of doing something.
- What is hurry up in Tamil?
- Hurry up in Tamil is சர்ப்ப. See Hurry up meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is hurry up?
- Hurry up is a verb.
- What is the past tense of hurry up?
- The past tense of hurry up is hurried up.
Words near hurry up in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: hurry up (page history and authors); hurry up (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); పద (Telugu) (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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