Hasten
Word | HASTEN |
Character | 6 |
Hyphenation | has ten |
Pronunciations | /ˈheɪ.sən/ |
Definitions and meanings of "Hasten"
What do we mean by hasten?
To move or act swiftly. synonym: speed. intransitive verb
To cause to move or act swiftly. intransitive verb
To cause to happen sooner than otherwise would be the case. intransitive verb
To speed up; accelerate. intransitive verb
To move or act with celerity; be rapid, speedy, or quick; make haste: applied primarily to voluntary action.
Synonyms Hasten, Hurry. To hasten is to work, move, etc., quickly, but properly not too quickly; to hurry is to go too fast for dignity, comfort, or thoroughness: as, to hasten to tell a piece of good news; to hasten the erection of a building; to hurry through a lesson; to look hurried. While hasten has come to be thus used only in a good sense, haste, n., hasty, and hastiness retain a bad meaning as well as a good: as, the book was evidently written in haste; he had a hasty temper; he had occasion to regret his hastiness. Indeed, hasty and hastiness usually convey censure.
To cause to move or act with celerity; cause to make haste; drive or urge forward; expedite.
To move with celerity; to be rapid in motion; to act speedily or quickly; to go quickly. intransitive verb
To press; to drive or urge forward; to push on; to precipitate; to accelerate the movement of; to expedite; to hurry. transitive verb
To move in a quick fashion. verb
To make someone speed up or make something happen quicker. verb
To cause some scheduled event to happen earlier. verb
Speed up the progress of; facilitate verb
Act or move at high speed verb
Move fast verb
Cause to occur rapidly verb
To move or act in a quick fashion.
To make someone speed up or make something happen quicker.
To cause some scheduled event to happen earlier.
1. To do or say something without delay, often in order to correct what might otherwise be a misleading impression. 2. To speed something up. 3. To go somewhere quickly or without delay. Urban Dictionary
To effectively increase one's speed in order not to remain stagnant or in fact go back in time. Urban Dictionary
Synonyms and Antonyms for Hasten
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- Antonyms for hasten
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- Retard Antonyms
- Delay Antonyms
- Linger Antonyms
- Dawdle Antonyms
The word "hasten" in example sentences
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What does hasten mean?
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