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hurdle, n. 1. obstacle, impediment, handicap, hindrance, obstruction, barrier, bar, check; difficulty, stumbling block, snag; interference, interruption, counteraction, setback; barricade, barricado, blockade, block, stopper, stoppage.
2. fence, picket fence, railing, rail, paling, boarding, balustrade, palisade; wall, rampart, circumvallation, lattice, latticework; hedge, hedgerow.
-v. 3. leap over, jump over, clear, negotiate, vault.
4. master, overcome, surmount, prevail; weather, survive.
hurl, v. 1. cast, throw, toss, dart, shy, chuck, pitch; dash, sling, let fly, send, launch; fling, flirt, heave, jerk, cant, shoot, fire; propel, project, jaculate, catapult. 2. lash out, fling out, fulminate, explode, blast, bellow, blare, thunder forth.
-n. 3. throw, toss, pitch, fling, cast.
hurly-burly, n. commotion, tumult, turmoil, turbulence, storm and stress; pandemonium, bedlam; uproar, racket, hubbub, brouhaha; disorder, chaos, confusion, upheaval; disquiet, unrest, disturbance, distraction, excitement, furor, agitation, disruption, perturbation, Sl. flap; bother, pother, trouble, fuss, fuss and feathers, Inf. to-do, Inf. foofaraw, Inf. stew, Inf. tizzy, Sl. lather.
hurrah, interj. 1. hurray, hallelujah, huzzah, rah, yippee, yippee-yi-o, hot diggetty, hot dog, hot snaps; three cheers, hip hip hooray, hip hip hurrah; boola boola, brackety-ax-co-ax-co-ax, oo-sa-sa; how to go, that's showin' 'em, way to go, hail hail, bravo; Japanese, banzai, It. viva, Fr. vive, Ger. hoch; hosanna, praise the Lord, glory be, glory be to God, glory to God, Islam. hamd'Allah.
2. interjection, exclamation, ejaculation, yell, cheer; exultance, exultation, elation, exuberance; hubbub, commotion, fanfare.
hurricane, n. 1. typhoon, tropical cyclone, cyclone, extratropical cyclone, Philippines, baguio, Central America, cordonazo, Australia, willy-willy; tempest, storm, gale, blast, blow, big blow; tornado, twister, whirlwind, squall, williwaw, chinook, foehn; wind, heavy winds, levanter, monsoon; blizzard, northeaster, nor'easter, north wind, Arctic blasts, tramontana, mistral; duststorm, duster, sandstorm, windstorm, khamsin, harmattan, simoom, samiel, sirocco.
2. outburst, explosion, uproar, commotion, maelstrom; wild time, howl, roaring good time; violence, vehemence.
hurried, adj. 1. rushed, driven, pressed for time; expeditious, urgent, pressing; hustling, bustling, fluttering, darting, scurrying, scuttling; feverish, frantic, frenetic, hectic.
2. hasty, cursory, superficial, shallow, perfunctory, passing, offhand; slapdash, lax, loose, slack; rash, reckless, careless, heedless, thoughtless; precipitate, headlong, breakneck.
hurry, v. 1. move quickly, hasten, lose no time, rush, make haste, Scot. swith, Scot. whirry, Literary, haste; race, scurry, skip, spurt, whisk, run, sprint; press on, push on, ride hard, canter, trot, gallop, lope, clap spurs to one's horse; shoot, tear, fly, fly on the wings of the wind, outstrip the wind, wing one's way, take wing, take to flight; scour, hustle, bustle, scamper, scuttle, trip, flit; flee, hotfoot, hotfoot it, hightail, hightail it, Inf. skedaddle, be on the run, beat a retreat; whip off, whip away, dash off, run like mad, Sl. get cracking, Sl. get one's rear in gear, Sl. shake a leg, Sl. go like a bat out of hell, go or run wide open, go all out, go at full blast, Inf. go like a shot, Sl. go hellbent for leather, Inf. go like greased lightning; hustle, speed up, put on more speed, step on the gas, Sl. step on it, Sl. burn up the road, cover ground; bound, spring, jump, make strides, do some tall stepping, bowl along, hie one's way, Inf. make it snappy, look alive.
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