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verb
- 1. be quick to do something: "he hastened to refute the assertion"
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to make something happen sooner or more quickly: There is little doubt that poor medical treatment hastened her death. These recent poor results have hastened the manager's departure. [ + to infinitive ] If you hasten to do something, you quickly do it: The president hastened to reassure his people that he was in perfect health. [ + to infinitive ]
Oct 25, 2012 · : to move or act quickly. She hastened up the stairs. transitive verb. 1. : to encourage to move or act quickly : to urge on. hastened her to the door A. J. Cronin. 2. : to cause to happen more quickly : accelerate. His death was hastened by alcoholism. hasten the coming of a new order D. W. Brogan. hastener. ˈhā-sᵊn-ər. ˈhās-nər. noun. Synonyms.
to make something happen sooner or more quickly: There is little doubt that poor medical treatment hastened her death. These recent poor results have hastened the manager's departure. [ + to infinitive ] If you hasten to do something, you quickly do it: The president hastened to reassure his people that he was in perfect health. [ + adv/prep ]
The verb hasten means to move at a high speed. If you hasten to your room, no one will know that you came in late. Hasten comes from the word haste, which means "excessive speed or urgency." The words hurry and hasten are synonyms.
1. To cause to move or act swiftly: The guard hastened him out of the room. 2. To cause to happen sooner than otherwise would be the case: negotiations that hastened the end of the war. 3. To speed up; accelerate: fanned the wet paint to hasten drying. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.
1. verb. If you hasten an event or process, often an unpleasant one, you make it happen faster or sooner. But if he does this, he may hasten the collapse of his own country. [VERB noun] Synonyms: hurry (up), speed (up), advance, urge More Synonyms of hasten. 2. verb. If you hasten to do something, you are quick to do it.
[transitive] hasten something (formal) to make something happen sooner or more quickly. The treatment she received may, in fact, have hastened her death. News of the scandal certainly hastened his departure from office. [intransitive] + adv./prep. (literary) to go or move somewhere quickly synonym hurry. We hastened back to Rome. Word Origin.
Definitions of 'hasten'. 1. If you hasten an event or process, often an unpleasant one, you make it happen faster or sooner. [...] 2. If you hasten to do something, you are quick to do it. [...] More.
To make haste; to act quickly; to hurry or to be quick ( to do something); to come or go quickly. Cf. haste v. 1a. 1534. He hastened to brynge hym out of the myddes of iniquitie. T. Elyot, translation of St. Cyprian, Swete & Deuoute Serm. sig. Dvii. 1569. King Richard.. hastened not a little to set all thinges..in order.
HASTEN meaning: 1 : to cause (something) to happen more quickly; 2 : to move or act quickly.
