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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | hurry, speed |
| Synonyms: | accelerate, barrel, bolt, break, career, charge, chase, course, dart, dash, dispatch, expedite, fire up, fleet, fling, flit, fly, get cracking, get the lead out, go like lightning, haste, hasten, hotfoot, hurry up, hustle, lose no time, make haste, make short work of, press, push, quicken, race, roll, run, scramble, scud, scurry, shake a leg, shoot, speed up, sprint, step on gas, streak, surge, tear, whiz*, zip, zoom* |
| Antonyms: | retard, slow |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | untighten |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | ease |
| Synonyms: | abate, aid, allay, ameliorate, anesthetize, appease, assist, assuage, attend to, calm, cheer, clear the way, comfort, cure, disburden, disengage, doctor*, expedite, facilitate, forward, free, further, improve, lessen, let up, let up on, lift, lighten, loose*, loosen, make easier, meliorate, mitigate, moderate, mollify, nurse, open the door, pacify, palliate, promote, quiet, relax, release, relent, relieve, run interference for, simplify, slack, slacken, smooth*, soften*, soothe, speed, speed up, still, tranquilize |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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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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