to hasten
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4.6
- verb
- /ˈheɪsən/
- This can help to to hasten the ripening process.
- hastening death
- hastened the demise
- hastening the decline
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Watch on YouTubeMay you quicken the currents of truth in every field and discipline and hasten the world to better days.
- May you quicken the currents of truth in every field and discipline and hasten the world to better days.
- These would engrave themselves upon the popular imagination and not just preserve the movement, but hasten the rebellion.
- There have been new offensives, new weapons and tactics from each nation this war, trying to hasten it to a successful conclusion.
- Allow your judgments their own silent, undisturbed development, which, like all progress much, must come from deep within and cannot be forced or hastened.
- But so these heavy, so our obesity path has has hastened puberty, yes.
- Better keep waiting for I'm coming here because in the end, life is short, and it hastens you toward me.
- And you have to question and otherwise, you know, you're hastening the demise of the human species and the human race.
- The allegations were that he gave, he intentionally tried to hasten their death by giving them too much pain meds, medication.
Examples
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Prior to the failure, Defense Secretary McElroy had explained the need for hastening the program.
Academic text (1994) -
Every hour lost hastens Gondor's defeat.
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If she did, the interview might be hastened to a conclusion.
Fiction book (1997) -
There have been new offensives, new weapons and tactics from each nation this war, trying to hasten it to a successful conclusion.
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These would engrave themselves upon the popular imagination and not just preserve the movement, but hasten the rebellion.
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Once the border issue was settled, Germany hastened to put relations with its eastern neighbors on a fresh footing.
Academic text (2001) -
As a result, the National Assembly hastened the process for overhauling the economy and streamlining the government's operation.
Academic text (1999) -
The government responded to the decline of SOEs by hastening their reform and restructuring.
Academic text (2001) -
The worldwide exploitation of hawksbills for their shells hastened the decimation of this species.
Academic text (1994) -
The scientist hopes to hasten the development of a vaccine for the virus.
Synonyms
505
1.0
To move or act more quickly to avoid being late
227
3.7
To move faster or make something happen faster
224
1.0
To make a person or thing move quickly
205
1.0
To make something move or happen faster
186
2.5
To make something move or happen faster
61
6.5
To make something happen faster and easier
14
4.1
To move or happen faster
12
1.0
To make someone move or work faster than they want
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7.5
To make a reaction or process happen faster
2
9.1
To make something happen faster
1
3.9
Move or work faster to finish sooner
1
9.9
To move or act quickly because you are in a hurry
Antonyms
How Fast
224
1.0
- Specialized
227
3.7
28
4.6
186
2.5
- Formal
61
6.5
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word hasten comes from an old French verb haster, which meant 'to urge', and it shares the root with the English word haste ('quickness'). So to hasten something is like 'pushing' it forward so it happens sooner.