Hasten

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • verb-intransitive. To move or act swiftly.
  • v. To cause to hurry.
  • v. To speed up; accelerate: fanned the wet paint to hasten drying. See Synonyms at speed.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To move in a quick fashion.
  • v. To make someone speed up or make something happen quicker.
  • v. To cause some scheduled event to happen earlier.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To press; to drive or urge forward; to push on; to precipitate; to accelerate the movement of; to expedite; to hurry.
  • verb-intransitive. To move with celerity; to be rapid in motion; to act speedily or quickly; to go quickly.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. speed up the progress of; facilitate
  • v. act or move at high speed
  • v. move fast
  • v. cause to occur rapidly
  • Antonym
    detain    retard    delay   
    Verb Form
    hastened    hastening    hastens   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    help    assist    aid    act    move    effect    set up    effectuate   
    Form
    hastened    hastening    hastener   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    press    precipitate    expedite    hurry    quicken    dispatch    speed    urge    hurry-scurry    express   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
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