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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | act, move speedily |
| Synonyms: | accelerate, barrel, be quick, beeline, bestir, breeze, bullet, burst, bustle, dash, dig in, drive, expedite, fleet, flit, fly, get a move on, go like lightning, goad, haste, hasten, hurry up, hustle, jog, lose no time, make haste, make short work of, make time, make tracks, nip, push, quicken, race, rip, rocket, roll, run, rush, sally, scoot, scurry, shake a leg, smoke, speed, speed up, spur, step on gas, step on it, turn on steam, urge, whirl, whish, whisk, whiz, zip |
| Antonyms: | dally, dawdle, delay, procrastinate, rest, slow, stall, wait |
| Main Entry: | speed |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | move along quickly |
| Synonyms: | advance, aid, assist, barrel, belt, bomb, boost, bowl over, career, cover ground, cut along, dispatch, expedite, facilitate, flash, fly, further, gallop, gather momentum, gear up, get a move on, get moving, get under way, go all out, go fast, go like the wind, hasten, help, hightail, hurry, impel, lose no time, make haste, open up throttle, press on, promote, quicken, race, ride, run, rush, sail, spring, step on it, tear, urge, whiz, zoom |
| Notes: | speed is the distance an object travels during a unit of time; velocity is the distance an object travels in a specified direction during a unit of time |
| Antonyms: | delay, halt, slow |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Main Entry: | hurry |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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boisterous, booming, breathless, brusque, cursory, festinate, feverish, furious, fussy, hard, headlong, hot, impelled, impelling, impetuous, impulsive, in a hurry, in all haste, in haste, in hot haste, partito in quarta, precipitate, precipitous, preproperous, pressed for time, pushing, rudderish, saccadic, scrambling, spoffish, umbeer, urgent
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