To hasten; urge forward or onward; impel to greater rapidity of movement or action.To impel to violent or thoughtless action; urge to confused or imprudent activity.To draw, as a corf or wagon, in a coal-mine.Synonyms Hasten, Hurry (see hasten, v. i.); precipitate.To flurry.To move or act with haste.To move or act with undue haste or with precipitation.Synonyms Hasten, Hurry. See hasten, v. i.n. The act of hurrying.n. Excessive haste; precipitation; hence, agitation; confusion.n. A timber staging with spouts running from it, used in loading vessels with coal.n. In dram, music, a tremolando passage for violins or tympani in connection with an exciting situation.n. Synonyms Haste (see hasten, v. i.), flurry, flutter.n. In physical, a proposed unit of acceleration; an acceleration of one foot per second per second.