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  • 101hurry — {{11}}hurry (n.) c.1600, probably from HURRY (Cf. hurry) (v.). {{12}}hurry (v.) 1590, first recorded in Shakespeare, who used it often; perhaps a variant of harry (v.), or perhaps a W.Midlands sense of M.E. hurren to vibrate rapidly, buzz, from P …

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  • 102pell-mell — adv. in a hurried and disorganized fashion adj. hurried and disorganized …

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  • 103precipitated — prɪ sɪpɪteɪtɪd adj. hurried, rushed, accelerated, quickened pre cip·i·tate || prɪ sɪpɪteɪt n. condensed moisture that falls from the sky (i.e. rain, snow, hail, etc.); material that has been separated from a solution (Chemistry) v.… …

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  • 104slapdash — adj. hurried, careless adv. in a careless or hurried manner …

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  • 105glance — glance1 verb 1》 take a brief or hurried look.     ↘(glance at/through) read quickly or cursorily. 2》 (often glance off) strike at an angle and bounce off obliquely. noun 1》 a brief or hurried look. 2》 archaic a flash or gleam of light. 3》 Cricket …

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  • 106hurry — verb (hurries, hurrying, hurried) move or act quickly or more quickly. ↘do or finish (something) quickly. noun great haste. ↘[with negative and in questions] a need for haste; urgency. Phrases in a hurry [usu. with negative] informal easily;… …

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  • 107scrawl — verb write in a hurried, careless way. noun an example of hurried, careless writing. Derivatives scrawly adjective Origin C17: appar. an alt. of crawl, perh. influenced by obs. scrawl sprawl …

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  • 108hurry — 1 verb 1 (I, T) to do something or go somewhere more quickly than usual, especially because there is not much time: The movie begins as six we ll have to hurry. | hurry through/along/down etc: She hurried down the corridor as fast as she could. | …

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  • 109hurry up — phrasal verb Word forms hurry up : present tense I/you/we/they hurry up he/she/it hurries up present participle hurrying up past tense hurried up past participle hurried up 1) [intransitive] mainly spoken used for telling someone to do something… …

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  • 110hurry*/ — [ˈhʌri] verb [I/T] I to do something or to move somewhere very quickly, or to make someone do this We must hurry or we ll be late.[/ex] Alex had to hurry home, but I decided to stay.[/ex] She hurried along the corridor towards his office.[/ex]… …

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