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# hurried

«hurried» in Mova's school dictionary: **done quickly because there is not much time: «a hurried…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective; verb, past form of hurry (hurry, hurries, hurried, hurrying)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Hurried means done quickly because there is not much time: «a hurried breakfast». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurried/#m1)

2) Hurried is the past of hurry: moved or acted fast. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurried/#m2)

3) Rushed and sometimes careless because of speed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurried/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Used in stories and everyday life: «hurried to school», «a hurried note», «hurried footsteps». It tells the reader someone was short of time or in a rush.

### examples

- We ate a hurried breakfast and ran for the bus. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurried/#x1)
- She hurried home before the rain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurried/#x2)
- He wrote a hurried note to his mum. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurried/#x3)
- Hurried footsteps came down the corridor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurried/#x4)
- His hurried work had lots of mistakes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurried/#x5)
- The children hurried into the hall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurried/#x6)
- So away he hurried to the Crane. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurried/#x7)

### note

Spelling: hurry → hurried (y changes to i before -ed); hurrying keeps the y. Adverb: hurriedly. Doing schoolwork in a hurried way often means more mistakes; check your answers.

### In the corpora

- ["Shotgun wedding" means a wedding hurried because a baby is on the way (jokey).](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/12-birth-and-couples/4/)
- [For we are consumed in Thine anger, and by Thy wrath are we hurried away.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1624/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «hurried» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurried/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.