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# hurry

«hurry» in Mova's school dictionary: **to move or do something quickly because there is not much…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (hurry, hurries, hurried, hurrying); noun (a hurry; in a hurry)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To hurry means to move or do something quickly because there is not much time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurry/#m1)

2) A hurry is a need to be quick; if you are in a hurry, you have to be fast. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurry/#m2)

3) To hurry someone means to make them go faster. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurry/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life, parents say «hurry up» in the morning before school. In safety lessons, hurrying causes accidents: never hurry across a road, run near a pool or rush down stairs. In stories, a character in a hurry is late or worried. Phrases: hurry up, in a hurry, no hurry, hurry home, what's the hurry.

### examples

- Hurry up, or we'll miss the bus! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurry/#x1)
- She hurried home before it got dark. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurry/#x2)
- I'm in a hurry, so I can't talk now. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurry/#x3)
- There's no hurry; take your time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurry/#x4)
- Don't hurry across the road; stop and look first. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurry/#x5)
- He hurried through his homework and made mistakes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurry/#x6)
- Don't hurry me, I'm still thinking! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurry/#x7)
- The rabbit was always in a hurry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurry/#x8)
- "Hurry up, can't you?" he said. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hurry/#x9)

### note

Y changes to i: hurries, hurried; but hurrying. «In a hurry» needs «a». Hurrying often causes mistakes in maths; checking your work is worth the time. «Hurry» and «rush» mean almost the same.

### In the corpora

- [RABBIT", and Alice goes in without knocking and hurries upstairs, afraid of meeting the real Mary Ann and being turned out.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/7-alice-ch4-part1-the-rabbits-house/11/)
- [In the middle is a dish of tarts that look so good that Alice wishes they'd hurry up and hand round the refreshments.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/21-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-1/2/)
- [We needn't decide anything in a hurry.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/30-willows-ch2-part2-the-canary-coloured-cart/40/)
- [They hurry home across the snowy fields towards the river.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/40-willows-ch4-part4-the-city-under-the-wood/11/)
- ["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/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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