hurry vs whirl

hurry

noun
  • Rushed action. 

  • Urgency. 

  • an incidence of a defensive player forcing the quarterback to act faster than the quarterback was prepared to, resulting in a failed offensive play. 

  • A tremolando passage for violins, etc., accompanying an exciting situation. 

verb
  • Often with up, to speed up the rate of doing something. 

  • To cause to be done quickly. 

  • To hasten; to impel to greater speed; to urge on. 

  • To do things quickly. 

  • To impel to precipitate or thoughtless action; to urge to confused or irregular activity. 

  • To put: to convey coal in the mine, e.g. from the working to the tramway. 

whirl

noun
  • A rapid series of events. 

  • (usually following “give”) A brief experiment or trial. 

  • Something that whirls. 

  • Dizziness or giddiness. 

  • An act of whirling. 

  • A confused tumult. 

verb
  • To make something or someone whirl. 

  • To have a sensation of spinning or reeling. 

  • To remove or carry quickly with, or as with, a revolving motion; to snatch. 

  • To rotate, revolve, spin or turn rapidly. 

How often have the words hurry and whirl occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )