hurry up

Verb

Meaning

hurry up (third-person singular simple present hurries up, present participle hurrying up, simple past and past participle hurried up)

(emphatic, transitive, intransitive) To hurry; to increase the speed of doing something.

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Examples

Let us love the passing hour, let us hurry up and enjoy our time. Alphonse de Lamartine

If you don't hurry up and let life know what you want, life will damned soon show you what you'll get. Robertson Davies

So hurry up and run to the one that you love. And blind him with your kindness. And he'll make war, oh war, On who you were before. And he'll claim all that has spoiled in your heart. Conor Oberst

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear. Aldous Huxley

It kind of makes me wish that the worst thing that will ever happen to me would just hurry up and happen already. That way I could live the rest of my life in bliss, if only because I know how much worse things could be. Megan McCafferty

Patience doesn't mean making a pact with the devil of denial, ignoring our emotions and aspirations. It means being wholeheartedly engaged in the process that's unfolding, rather than ripping open a budding flower or demanding a caterpillar hurry up and get that chrysalis stage over with. Sharon Salzberg

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