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All careering synonyms

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verb careering

  • hurry β€” to move, proceed, or act with haste (often followed by up): Hurry, or we'll be late. Hurry up, it's starting to rain.
  • hustle β€” to proceed or work rapidly or energetically: to hustle about putting a house in order.
  • rush β€” to move, act, or progress with speed, impetuosity, or violence.
  • pursue β€” to strive to gain; seek to attain or accomplish (an end, object, purpose, etc.).
  • hunt β€” to chase or search for (game or other wild animals) for the purpose of catching or killing.
  • scurry β€” to go or move quickly or in haste.
  • surge β€” a strong, wavelike, forward movement, rush, or sweep: the onward surge of an angry mob.
  • career β€” A career is the job or profession that someone does for a long period of their life.
  • race β€” Cape, a cape at the SE extremity of Newfoundland.
  • gush β€” to flow out or issue suddenly, copiously, or forcibly, as a fluid from confinement: Water gushed from the broken pipe.
  • hasten β€” to move or act with haste; proceed with haste; hurry: to hasten to a place.
  • make it snappy β€” apt to snap or bite; snappish, as a dog.
  • make off β€” to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
  • run its course β€” (of something) to complete its development or action
  • immerge β€” to plunge, as into a fluid.
  • go whole hog β€” Nautical. (of a hull) to have less than the proper amount of sheer because of structural weakness; arch. Compare sag (def 6a).
  • shoot the works β€” exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
  • beat it β€” to go away
  • clear out β€” If you tell someone to clear out of a place or to clear out, you are telling them rather rudely to leave the place.
  • light out β€” to get down or descend, as from a horse or a vehicle.
  • take off β€” the act of taking.
  • cut and run β€” to make a rapid escape
  • dog it β€” a domesticated canid, Canis familiaris, bred in many varieties.
  • make tracks β€” a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
  • take flight β€” an act or instance of fleeing or running away; hasty departure.
  • get the lead out β€” Chemistry. a heavy, comparatively soft, malleable, bluish-gray metal, sometimes found in its natural state but usually combined as a sulfide, especially in galena. Symbol: Pb; atomic weight: 207.19; atomic number: 82; specific gravity: 11.34 at 20Β°C.
  • fire up β€” start ignition of
  • get cracking β€” to break without complete separation of parts; become fissured: The plate cracked when I dropped it, but it was still usable.
  • lose no time β€” act without delay
  • make haste β€” swiftness of motion; speed; celerity: He performed his task with great haste. They felt the need for haste.
  • make short work of β€” exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
  • shake a leg β€” an act or instance of shaking, rocking, swaying, etc.
  • speed up β€” an increasing of speed.
  • bowl over β€” To bowl someone over means to push into them and make them fall to the ground.
  • cover ground β€” to move or traverse a certain distance
  • cut along β€” to hurry off
  • gear up β€” Machinery. a part, as a disk, wheel, or section of a shaft, having cut teeth of such form, size, and spacing that they mesh with teeth in another part to transmit or receive force and motion. an assembly of such parts. one of several possible arrangements of such parts in a mechanism, as an automobile transmission, for affording different relations of torque and speed between the driving and the driven machinery, or for permitting the driven machinery to run in either direction: first gear; reverse gear. a mechanism or group of parts performing one function or serving one purpose in a complex machine: steering gear.
  • get a move on β€” to pass from one place or position to another.
  • go all out β€” make a full effort
  • press on β€” continue, persevere
  • step on it β€” a movement made by lifting the foot and setting it down again in a new position, accompanied by a shifting of the weight of the body in the direction of the new position, as in walking, running, or dancing.
  • get out β€” an offspring or the total of the offspring, especially of a male animal: the get of a stallion.
  • hightail it β€” to go away or leave rapidly: Last we saw of him, he was hightailing down the street.
  • j β€” the tenth letter of the English alphabet, a consonant.
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