hasten

Speech parts

1. hasten - Verb

2. Hasten - Proper noun

Meaning

To press; to drive or urge forward; to push on; to precipitate; to accelerate the movement of; to expedite; to hurry.

To move celerity; to be rapid in motion; to act speedily or quickly; to go quickly.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

race rush hurry hie dart quicken speed induce stimulate accelerate zoom expedite hotfoot speed up hare

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Antonyms

logan swan potter dally scrabble stonewall

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Hypernyms

effect help move act travel aid

Hyponyms

scud dart scoot buck charge shoot

Related terms

haste

Phrases with the word

to hasten

Derivatives

hastened hastening

Anagrams

snathe sneath Athens Anthes

Examples

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like. Augustine of Hippo

I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep. Pierre Beaumarchais

We hasten to alienate the very fates we intended to woo. Vladimir Nabokov

We take foreigners to be incomplete Americans - convinced that we must help and hasten their evolution. Saul Bellow

Misfortunes hasten age. English Proverb

Hasten at leisure. German Proverb

Close letter words and terms

hastelessness Hastelloy hastely hastener hastening Hastie