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hasten English

Meaning hasten meaning

What does hasten mean?
Definitions in simple English

hasten Verb

— If you hasten to do something, you try to do it very soon and very quickly. After the play ended, she hastened to leave. — If you hasten an event, you try to make it happen very soon and very quickly. We've known for a long time that loneliness hastens death, but haven't been able to explain how.

hasten

— verb (= rush, hurry) act or move at high speed We have to rush! hurry--it's late! — verb (= rush, race) move fast He rushed down the hall to receive his guests The cars raced down the street — verb (= expedite) speed up the progress of; facilitate This should expedite the process — verb (= induce) cause to occur rapidly the infection precipitated a high fever and allergic reactions

Synonyms hasten synonyms

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hasten English » English

hurry rush accelerate speed up speed expedite quicken make haste urge advance promote precipitate dash scurry in a hurry hustle hurry up further hie race drive on be in a hurry step on it haste festinate rush along run quick look sharp hotfoot flee belt along swiften stir stimulate spurt sprint shoot scuttle scoot scamper raise railroad press pelt along move swiftly induce hurry on gallop cannonball along

Topics hasten topics

What do people use hasten to talk about?
Physical actions Move Manner of movement

Move quickly
States Time Speed

Quick

Conjugation hasten conjugation

How do you conjugate hasten?

hasten · verb

Examples hasten examples

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Simple sentences

Hasten slowly.

Movie subtitles

Dry your tears, dear, and hasten -- you must make ready for your performance!
The action I take is designed only to hasten the explosion of truth and justice.
When you need help, you have but to ring the alarm bell in the tower. and I shall hear it wherever I may be and hasten to your assistance.
A privilege, I hasten to add, which I don't underestimate in the slightest.
I hasten to assure you both that such is not the case.
If you are successful in this mission, you may hasten that day and the end of the war.
I hasten to add that since each man will be required to do prodigious service along these lines the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature.
May the Gods hasten the day.
Go before, nurse. Commend me to thy lady. Bid her hasten all to bed, which heavy sorrow makes them apt unto.
Dear friends, a crematorium is pleasing to our Lord, helping Him to hasten our transformation into dust.
But I think nothing like that is going to happen again. So I hasten to inform you that I'm alive and well, and hope you're, too.
Only the presence of the King can hasten total war, and total victory!
Hasten to the tomb and enter through the gap in the wall. Come to the door and see if it is Haemon's voice I hear, or if I'm deceived by a god.
Why do you hasten to disillusion her on your account?
Hasten Doctor Chillip! She's in great pain!
Hasten!
Aha. Maybe we'd better hasten the wedding.
I heard some shouting I hasten to ask the causes, I find it in a state of turmoil, can I help you?
And when you observe that he has done nothing to me, let me hasten to illuminate you on this.
I hasten to add that since each man will be required to do prodigious. service along these lines. the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics. which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature.
I suppose I could hasten back to the stonecutter and join you tomorrow mor.
Gracious Tsar, do not delay! To your palace hasten, pray.
Gracious Tsar, do not delay! To you palace hasten, pray.
I must hasten back to my village and bring the news of our pilgrimage.
Bid her hasten all to bed, which heavy sorrow makes them apt unto.
Hasten, hasten!
OH, AUNTIE, HASTEN INTO YOUR BOMBAZINE.
He will propose eventually, but it would hasten things considerably if I had the added attraction of a dowry.
I hasten to add. that the problems are not as straightforward as some people think.
I hasten.
Wait, don't hasten things.
Commend me to thy lady, and bid her hasten all the house to bed, which heavy sorrow makes them apt unto.
I mean Charles, was the first. The girl's lawyer is trying to hasten things.
You slaves and servants of my guard, Hasten in coming to my side!
Hasten up!
And hasten up, you two!
Now that such people can no longer get away with assuring us that this society is completely satisfactory, they hasten to declare themselves dissatisfied with any critique of it.
Certain murmurings and rumors. From native sources, I hasten to add.
Now, carrying the lamp, I hasten into the gloom.

News and current affairs

Doctors have pointed out that, whilst recognizing that an increasing majority of the population wants such a service to be available, to hasten death intentionally is still inherently incompatible with the basic objectives of medicine.
Recent research suggests that efforts to eliminate cancers may actually hasten the emergence of resistance and tumor recurrence, thus reducing a patient's chances of survival.
Since then the broad consensus in the US has been that cyclical economic distress requires the use of budget deficits to ameliorate suffering, stimulate aggregate demand, and hasten recovery.
Akin in some ways to Lenin's doctrine that worsening social conditions would hasten revolution, the Hojatieh believe that only increased violence, conflict, and oppression will bring the Mahdi's return.
As for Russia's Far East, the Chinese believe it will eventually fall to China anyway, so there is no need to hasten the process.
Bush did nothing to stop the killings in Darfur or hasten Mugabe's exit from power.
China sees economic ties as a way to hasten its modernization.
Optimists hope that this might hasten economic liberalization, and perhaps even lead to moderate political reform, especially greater accountability for far-flung local officials.
And, as the editorialists hasten to remind us, the downside is especially large at a time when the world's financial system is reeling under the sub-prime mortgage crisis and the United States is entering a recession.
For warfarin, a widely prescribed drug used to prevent blood clots, genotyping can guide the right dose and hasten the time it takes to get to steady state.
Given that Asian countries naturally will uphold and defend IP rights more vigorously when they have more at stake, the West should look for ways to hasten this transition.
So, does Germany want to hold together the monetary union and thus preserve the EU, or will it allow dithering and a lack of vision to hasten the erosion of Europe's foundations?

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