hurry up
Third Person
hurries up
Present Participle
hurrying up
Past Tense
hurried up
Past Participle
hurried up
1
to act more quickly because there is not much time
transitive
- He doesn’t need to hurry up as he’s already finished his work.
- Hurry up, your friends are waiting for you outside.
- I usually hurry up when I see the bus coming.
- She had to hurry up to finish the project on time.
- The teacher told the students to hurry up with their assignments.
2
to make a particular thing such as an event, action, etc. happen faster
- With the unexpected early arrival of guests, the event planners had to hurry up the setup process to ensure everything was ready.
- We need to hire more staff to hurry up the production process.
- Can you please hurry up the report?We have a tight deadline.
- The manager asked the team to hurry up their tasks to meet the project timeline.
- Can you do anything to hurry the delivery of my package up?