Meaning

3 senses

  1. (intransitive, poetic)To hasten; to go quickly, to hurry.

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    спешитьspešitʹ, торопи́тьсяtoropítʹsja

  2. (poetic, reflexive)To hurry (oneself).

  3. (transitive)To urge (a horse) to the left with a cry of "hie".

More definitions
  • move hurridly

Examples

1 sentences

  1. He could not believe hie eyes.

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Translations

5 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
to go in haste:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to go in haste:

Origin

From Middle English hien, hyen, highen, heiȝen, hiȝen, from Old English hīgian (“to hie, h

From Middle English hien, hyen, highen, heiȝen, hiȝen, from Old English hīgian (“to hie, hasten, strive”), from Proto-West Germanic *hīgōn, from Proto-Germanic *hīgōną (“to breathe, snort”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱēygʰ- (“swift, fierce, violent”).

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Forms

hies, hying, hied, hied
Base formhie · to hie
3rd person singularhies
Present participlehying
Past simplehied
Past participlehied

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyhie
he, she, ithies

Past simpleLesson

all personshied

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave hied
he, she, ithas hied

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill hie

Synonyms

11 synonyms

Antonyms

1 antonyms
hup

Word family

1 related words
Derivedoverhie

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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