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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.

3 synonyms · Tier 3, Ridgeline · 1 sense · verb · a wrong tile in 2 puzzles

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.

  • hastehaste is a noun in the sense "the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner"
  • rushrush is a verb in the sense "urge to an unnatural speed"

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.

The senseverbTier 3, RidgelineChange

act at high speed

You will have to hurry to catch the last bus.

This is the whole of what a player sees before choosing. The meaning has to come out of it.

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.

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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 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.

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