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Hurries

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hur·ry  (hûr, hr-)
v. hur·ried, hur·ry·ing, hur·ries
v.intr.
To move or act with speed or haste.
v.tr.
1. To cause to move or act with speed or haste: hurried the children to school.
2. To cause to move or act with undue haste; rush: was hurried into marriage.
3. To speed the progress or completion of; expedite. See Synonyms at speed.
n. pl. hur·ries
1. The act or an instance of hurrying; hastened progress.
2. Activity or motion that is often unduly hurried; haste. See Synonyms at haste.
3. The need or wish to hurry; a condition of urgency: in no hurry to leave.

[Possibly Middle English horien, perhaps variant of harien, to harass; see harry.]

hurri·er n.

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Warned by the seer Teiresias Creon repents him and hurries to release Antigone from her rocky prison.
No sooner has he gone than Creon enters with an armed guard who seize Antigone and carry her off (Ismene, the other sister, they have already captured) and he is about to lay hands on Oedipus, when Theseus, who has heard the tumult, hurries up and, upbraiding Creon for his lawless act, threatens to detain him till he has shown where the captives are and restored them.
She dips her rim, She sinks, she founders in the mist; and still The stream flows on, and to the insatiate sea Hurries her white-wave flocks innumerable In never-ending tale.
 
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