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Synonyms for hurry
Synonyms for hurry: hasten, haste and rush. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 3 synonyms for hurry
Interchangeable with hurry in this sense
Audited under hurry's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one hurry carries in that sense.
- hastenverb, in the sense "act at high speed"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name hurry as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
one of these comes from hurry's own entry in the bank, and two were audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.
act at high speed
You will have to hurry to catch the last bus.
The true synonym
hasten
Same sentence, swapped: You will have to hasten to catch the last bus.
Close but different
Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.
- zip
- save
- clear
Where hurry turns up in the game
hurry is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where hurry is the trap
- plodverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is lumber, in the sense "to walk slowly and heavily, typically from tiredness", so hurry is there to be ruled out.
- dawdleverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is dally, in the sense "to move or act slowly, wasting time", so hurry is there to be ruled out.
Play hurry
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so hurry reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from change at Ridgeline outward to the whole bank.
The same bank, read from both sides
hurry is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 2. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.