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hurrying

verbnounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈhʌɹi.ɪŋ//
  • //ˈhʌɹi.ɪŋ//
  • //ˈhɝ.i.ɪŋ//
  • //ˈhʊɹi.ɪŋ//
  • //ˈhʊɹi.ɪŋɡ//

The act of one who hurries; hasty motion.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of hurrypresent participle and gerund of hurry

    With a little manœuvring they contrived to meet on the doorstep which was […] in a boiling stream of passers-by, hurrying business people speeding past in a flurry of fumes and dust in the bright haze.

noun

  1. 1

    The act of one who hurries; hasty motion.

    Consider the hurryings of Jesus from Caiaphas to Pilate; now he stands before Pilate where he was accused of sedition, seduction and usurpation.

Forms

plural
hurryings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).