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{
"term": "hurry",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "b1",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "hurry",
"heSheIt": "hurries"
},
"pastSimple": "hurried",
"pastParticiple": "hurried",
"ingForm": "hurrying"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to move or act quickly because there is not much time",
"sensetop": "hurry to do something",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "You'll have to hurry if you want to catch that train."
},
{
"text": "We need to hurry or we'll be late for school."
},
{
"text": "The kids hurried to open their presents.",
"contextForm": "hurry to do something"
}
],
"synonyms": "rush"
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to move quickly in a particular direction",
"sensetop": "+ adv./prep.",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "He picked up his bags and hurried across the courtyard."
},
{
"text": "She hurried away without saying goodbye."
},
{
"text": "She hurried after Gary to apologize to him."
},
{
"text": "She hurried down the street."
},
{
"text": "I hurried home to tell him the news."
},
{
"text": "Ben hurried after her."
},
{
"text": "She came hurrying over to greet them."
},
{
"text": "She hurried along the corridor."
},
{
"text": "We nodded at her and hurried out the door."
},
{
"text": "He hurried over to the window to see what the noise was."
},
{
"text": "Kathy hurried off in the same direction."
}
],
"synonyms": "rush"
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "to make somebody do something more quickly",
"sensetop": "hurry somebodyhurry somebody into doing something",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "I don't want to hurry you but we close in twenty minutes.",
"contextForm": "hurry somebody"
},
{
"text": "She was hurried into making an unwise choice.",
"contextForm": "hurry somebody into doing something"
}
],
"synonyms": "rush"
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "to deal with something quickly",
"sensetop": "hurry something + adv./prep.",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Her application was hurried through."
}
],
"synonyms": "rush"
},
{
"senseNumber": 5,
"definition": "to do something too quickly",
"sensetop": "be hurried",
"examples": [
{
"text": "A good meal should never be hurried.",
"contextForm": "be hurried"
}
],
"synonyms": "rush"
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈhʌri/",
"audio": "hu/hurry/hurry__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈhʌriz/",
"audio": "hu/hurry/hurries__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈhʌrid/",
"audio": "hu/hurry/hurried__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈhʌriɪŋ/",
"audio": "hu/hurry/hurrying__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈhɜːri/",
"audio": "hu/hurry/hurry__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈhɜːriz/",
"audio": "hu/hurry/hurries__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈhɜːrid/",
"audio": "hu/hurry/hurried__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈhɜːriɪŋ/",
"audio": "hu/hurry/hurrying__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late 16th cent. (as a verb): imitative."
}