hurried

«hurried» in Mova's school dictionary: done quickly because there is not much time: «a hurried… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective; verb, past form of hurry (hurry, hurries, hurried, hurrying)

meaning for a pupil

1) Hurried means done quickly because there is not much time: «a hurried breakfast». tree →

2) Hurried is the past of hurry: moved or acted fast. tree →

3) Rushed and sometimes careless because of speed. tree →

sense in the lessons

Used in stories and everyday life: «hurried to school», «a hurried note», «hurried footsteps». It tells the reader someone was short of time or in a rush.

examples

• We ate a hurried breakfast and ran for the bus. tree →
• She hurried home before the rain. tree →
• He wrote a hurried note to his mum. tree →
• Hurried footsteps came down the corridor. tree →
• His hurried work had lots of mistakes. tree →
• The children hurried into the hall. tree →
• So away he hurried to the Crane. tree →

note

Spelling: hurry → hurried (y changes to i before -ed); hurrying keeps the y. Adverb: hurriedly. Doing schoolwork in a hurried way often means more mistakes; check your answers.

In the corpora

• "Shotgun wedding" means a wedding hurried because a baby is on the way (jokey).
• For we are consumed in Thine anger, and by Thy wrath are we hurried away.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «hurried» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.