hurrying

Verb

hurry (third-person singular simple present hurries, present participle hurrying, simple past and past participle hurried)

1. (intransitive) To do things quickly.
   • He's hurrying because he's late.
2. (intransitive) Often with up, to speed up the rate of doing something.
   • If you don't hurry (up) you won't finish on time.
3. (transitive) To cause to be done quickly.
4. (transitive) To hasten; to impel to greater speed; to urge on.
   • the rapid Stream presently draws him in , carries him away , and hurries him down violently.1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London
5. (transitive) To impel to precipitate or thoughtless action; to urge to confused or irregular activity.
   • And wild amazement hurries up and down / The little number of your doubtful friends.c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
6. To put: to convey coal in the mine, e.g. from the working to the tramway.
   • Elizabeth Day, aged seventeen […] "I have been nearly nine years in the pit. I trapped for two years when I first went, and have hurried ever since. I have hurried for my father until a year ago. I have to help to riddle and fill, […]1842, The Condition and Treatment of the Children Employed in the Mines, page 45

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