Translation
to hurry; to hasten
Word origin
From English haste and German hasten, both from Old French haste, which French had itself taken from Frankish haifst, meaning violence or vehemence. So the word came into the Romance languages from Germanic and then went back out again.
- Origin
- Germanic
- Root
- haifst
- English cognates
- haste, hasty, hasten
Examples
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Do not hurry, we have enough time.
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He hurried to the station, because the train had already come.
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She is always in a hurry and never rests.
is intransitive: you hurry, you do not hurry something. To make someone else get a move on, add the causative suffix and say i. It carries a faint note of too much rush, which is why works as gentle advice rather than an order to stop moving.
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