hie

C2+ Topic:Actions & Processes

US /haɪ/ UK /haɪ/ See IPA manual

Homophones

hi /haɪ/ high /haɪ/

Meanings

1

verb
to go quickly; to hasten (archaic or literary)

Hie thee home before the storm breaks.

Verb forms

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Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 verb · to go quickly; to hasten... hasten hurry rush speed scurry dash race

Opposites

dawdle linger tarry dally

Etymology

From Old English hīgian ('to strive, hasten, exert oneself'), of uncertain further origin, possibly related to Middle Dutch hîen.

hīgian Old English

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Actions & Processes Register & Style

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# hie

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2+
**Part of speech:** verb
**IPA (US):** /haɪ/
**IPA (UK):** /haɪ/

## Meanings
1. to go quickly; to hasten (archaic or literary)

## Examples
- Hie thee home before the storm breaks.

## Synonyms
- hasten
- hurry
- rush
- speed
- scurry
- dash
- race

## Antonyms
- dawdle
- linger
- tarry
- dally

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: hīgian

## Etymology
From Old English hīgian ('to strive, hasten, exert oneself'), of uncertain further origin, possibly related to Middle Dutch hîen.

## AI Etymology
hie comes from Old English hīgian ('to strive, hasten, exert oneself'), of uncertain further origin, possibly related to Middle Dutch hîen. The history explains the modern form through the named earlier word or formation, without requiring a separate speculative ancestry. The etymology remains cautious where the history is cautious: comparisons, echoic formation, or disputed derivation do not make the ancestry more definite than the forms actually named. In present English, the verb sense is "to go quickly; to hasten (archaic or literary)", so the historical development ends in a clearly identifiable modern dictionary use. Its semantic neighborhood includes hasten, hurry, rush, and speed, which helps locate the modern sense without adding a separate etymological claim. The named historical forms include Old English hīgian.

## Topics
- Actions & Processes
- Register & Style

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