Hasten

Word HASTEN
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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

The word "hasten" in example sentences

The answers to these letters left no hope that the question would be submitted to the Chambers in time to have the result known before the adjournment of Congress, and by the refusal to hasten the convocation of the Chambers before the last of December showed unequivocally that, so far from taking all measures permitted by the constitution to _hasten_ the period of presenting the law, it was to be left to the most remote period of the ordinary course of legislation. ❋ Unknown (1878)

"There was no regular order of march, but each rushed onward at his utmost speed, praying aloud to God for help to increase it, and calling frantically to his fellows to 'hasten, _hasten_ to the rescue of all they held most dear.' ❋ Martha Finley (1868)

I pretended to go into the city: I did so; and returned about the hour I supposed my brother in the wood: I fastened my horse at the entrance of it, changed my dress, put a mask on my face, and crept on towards the lower part; I distinguished him through trees - let me hasten from the remembrance! ❋ Eliza (1793)

But Stephen's object in mentioning David is to hasten from the tabernacle which he set up, to the temple which his son built, in Jerusalem; and this only to show, from their own Scripture (Isa ❋ Unknown (1871)

His description of the roads over the Alps is clear, lively, and accurate.] 56 Zosimus as well as Eusebius hasten from the passage of the Alps to the decisive action near ❋ Unknown (1206)

Apologists for ignoring the other side of the DV coin hasten to point out that while, yes, women commit domestic violence as readily as men, they don't do as much damage, and that's what's important. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It also asked Radebe to "hasten" the availability of the R3 million allocated by cabinet for the upgrading of public transport in preparation for the 2010 Soccer World Cup. ❋ Unknown (2005)

It will be further observed that the criminal undertook to "hasten" to the port of departure. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

But for such as hasten forward to the perfection of holy living, there are the precepts of the holy ❋ C. 540-604 (1898)

He said Ramesh has promised to "hasten" the South Korean steel giant's proposed project, billed as the country's single largest dose of FDI, which is lying pending for the last five years in the absence of green nod from the environment ministry. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Jason Wallace and Crystal Vitelli suggested in a press conference yesterday that the world-renowned children's care centre tried to "hasten" their daughter's death with morphine injections. ❋ Unknown (2009)

(I should hasten to add that I have no first-hand experience with Yoga.) ❋ Unknown (2009)

Essentially, he fears if the process for producing cellulosic ethanol becomes cheap and easy in poor countries, it would hasten the conversion of forestlands and other wilderness into a fuel source. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Now let me hasten to add that I don't think lack of bourgeois virtue is the main reason why Africans are so much poorer than Americans. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Virtually the only sop Cameron has fed Clegg is the referendum on AV, and a no vote could hasten that glad dawn. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The vision -- which i hasten to point out, is neither "religious" nor "otherworldly" -- feels like a"startling recognition." ❋ Jason Silva (2011)

1. "But she's perfectly right," he hastened to add. 2. A [vacation] would [hasten] his [recovery]. 3. He hastened to her side. ❋ Jafje (2007)

hasten your pace and have a [froff]!! why are you so unhasty? your pace hastening skills are [dismal] if you don't hasten your pace immidately you will get a [kick in the teeth] you pace is so unhastened that a sloth would overtake you ❋ Mac-ingston (2010)

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