Crossword clues for flurried
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Flurried \Flur"ried\, a. Agitated; excited. -- Flur"ried*ly adv.
Flurry \Flur"ry\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flurried; p. pr. & vb.
n. Flurrying.]
To put in a state of agitation; to excite or alarm.
--H.
Swinburne.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: flurry)
WordNet
n. a rapid bustling commotion [syn: bustle, hustle, ado, fuss, stir]
a light brief snowfall and gust of wind (or something resembling that); "he had to close the window against the flurries"; "there was a flurry of chicken feathers" [syn: snow flurry]
v. move in an agitated or confused manner
cause to feel embarrassment; "The constant attention of the young man confused her" [syn: confuse, disconcert, put off]
[also: flurried]
See flurry
Usage examples of "flurried".
Papers flurried, and moments later the Taurians, their lawyers, and my lawyers had all left the Golden Turtle Palace.
Great-Aunt Mary was home and being herself, remained un flurried when Annis told her news, beyond saying that she was delighted and would trout, jacket potatoes and a bottle of that Hock she had been saving for some special occasion do for their suppers.
And Dick, on the foredeck, was not flurried by the bump, but jumped ashore and stamped the rond-anchor well in, as if he had been doing it for years.
After a flurried ten seconds during which my eyes were still unused to the dim light, I ended up standing with my back to the end post of one of the partition walls.
The window frame which prevented anyone from sitting on the outer sill was being forced out by two footmen, who were evidently flurried and intimidated by the directions and shouts of the gentlemen around.
He provided the library with their special code, which changed the alphabet module, and, notified that humans desired the cartridge in question, the library flurried through authorizations, probably went through another process to decide that printout was supposed to accompany the cartridge—actually three forms of printout, literal, transliterated and translated came with each—and finally from its microstorage it began to produce the printouts.