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Definition of Hasten
1. Verb. Act or move at high speed. "Hurry--it's late!"
Generic synonyms: Act, Move
Derivative terms: Festination, Hurry, Rush, Rush, Rusher, Rushing
2. Verb. Move fast. "They hasten up the hill"; "The cars raced down the street"
Generic synonyms: Go, Locomote, Move, Travel
Specialized synonyms: Barge, Push Forward, Thrust Ahead, Buck, Charge, Shoot, Shoot Down, Tear, Dart, Dash, Flash, Scoot, Scud, Shoot
Antonyms: Linger
Derivative terms: Rush, Rushing, Speed, Speed, Speeding
Also: Speed Up
3. Verb. Speed up the progress of; facilitate. "This should expedite the process"
4. Verb. Cause to occur rapidly. "The infection precipitated a high fever and allergic reactions"
Generic synonyms: Effect, Effectuate, Set Up
Derivative terms: Inducing, Induction
Definition of Hasten
1. v. t. To press; to drive or urge forward; to push on; to precipitate; to accelerate the movement of; to expedite; to hurry.
2. v. i. To move with celerity; to be rapid in motion; to act speedily or quickly; to go quickly.
Definition of Hasten
1. Verb. To move in a quick fashion. ¹
2. Verb. To make someone speed up or make something happen quicker. ¹
3. Verb. To cause some scheduled event to happen earlier. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hasten
1. to hurry [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: hurry
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hasten
Literary usage of Hasten
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"See hasten. 9. In a sense implying the feeling of urgency, ... crowd, push,
hasten, drive, jostle, put. hustle, vi: hasten, work, bustle. ..."
2. The Poetical Works of John Dryden by John Dryden (1909)
"But 1 must hasten. And indeed, Madame, (beloved I had almost sayd,) hee bad need
hasten who treats of you ; for to speake fully to every part of your ..."
3. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes by Robert Burton (1800)
"But more of their differences, paradoxes, opinions, mad pranks, in the Symptomes:
I now hasten to the ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1899)
"poet, not to begin his epic at the origin of things, but to hasten on to the
event proper ; consequently, I shall not go back to the Egyptians, Greeks, ..."
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