{
    "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."
}