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overhurry

overhurry verb: to hurry excessively.

Verb

overhurry (third-person singular simple present overhurries, present participle overhurrying, simple past and past participle overhurried)

  1. (ambitransitive) To hurry excessively.

Forms of overhurry

third-person singular presentoverhurries
present participleoverhurrying
past participleoverhurried
pastoverhurried

Origin of overhurry

From over- + hurry.

Questions about overhurry

What does overhurry mean?
Overhurry means to hurry excessively.
What part of speech is overhurry?
Overhurry is a verb.
What is the past tense of overhurry?
The past tense of overhurry is overhurried.

Words near overhurry in the dictionary

  1. overhurling
  2. overhurls
  3. overhurried
  4. overhurriedly
  5. overhurries
  6. overhurry
  7. overhurrying
  8. overhydrate
  9. overhydrated
  10. overhydrates
  11. overhydrating

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