Haste applies to personal action and implies urgency and precipitancy and often rashness. To move or do things more quickly than normal or to make someone do this To move, proceed, or act with haste (often followed byup ). See examples of hurry used in a sentence. If you are in a hurry to do something, you need or want to do something quickly If you do something in a hurry, you do it quickly or suddenly
Kate was in a hurry to grow up, eager for knowledge and experience Eric left the barge in a hurry. You won't beat him in a hurry We won't go there again in a hurry. To (cause to) move, proceed, or act with haste [no object] he hurried into town
[~ + up] could you please hurry up [~ + object] the outfielder hurried his throw to first base. To move or act with speed or haste.
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