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affrettarsi — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • hasten verb To move or act quickly, or to make something happen sooner.
  • hie verb To hurry or go quickly (archaic or literary).
  • hurry verb To move or act with speed, or to make someone or something move faster.
  • hustle verb To push, shove, or move someone quickly and often roughly.
  • rush verb To hurry or do something very quickly, sometimes carelessly.
  • zip noun A fastener made of two rows of interlocking teeth pulled together by a sliding tab; also called a zipper.

Senses

affrettarsi is used for these senses in English:

  • hasten (intransitive) To move or act in a quick fashion.
  • hie (intransitive, poetic) To hasten; to go quickly, to hurry.
  • hurry (intransitive) To do things quickly.
  • hurry up (emphatic, ambitransitive) To hurry; to increase the speed of doing something.
  • hustle (intransitive) To rush or hurry.
  • make haste (intransitive, dated) To hurry or hasten.
  • rush (transitive, or, intransitive) To hurry; to perform a task with great haste, often not properly or without thinking carefully.
  • zip (intransitive, colloquial, followed by a preposition) To move in haste (in a specified direction or to a specified place).

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