hasten
to cause to hasten; accelerate: to hasten someone from a room; to hasten the arrival of a happier time.
Origin of hasten
1Other words for hasten
Other words from hasten
- has·ten·er, noun
- outhasten, verb (used with object)
- o·ver·has·ten, verb
- un·has·tened, adjective
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How to use hasten in a sentence
While USTR’s profile heightened, Lighthizer largely avoided the limelight, knowing that upstaging his boss could hasten his exit.
Robert Lighthizer Blew Up 60 Years of Trade Policy. Nobody Knows What Happens Next. | by Lydia DePillis | October 13, 2020 | ProPublica“These results suggest cultivating awe enhances positive emotions that foster social connection and diminishes negative emotions that hasten decline,” the researchers concluded in their paper.
Regular doses of awe can do wonders for emotional health | Kat Eschner | September 22, 2020 | Popular-ScienceNew seafloor maps reveal the first clear view of a system of channels that may be helping to hasten the demise of West Antarctica’s vulnerable Thwaites Glacier.
New maps show how warm water may reach Thwaites Glacier’s icy underbelly | Carolyn Gramling | September 9, 2020 | Science NewsBiochemical changes from loneliness can accelerate the spread of cancer, hasten heart disease and Alzheimer’s, or simply drain the most vital among us of the will to go on.
Why do you feel lonely? Neuroscience is starting to find answers. | Amy Nordrum | September 4, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewIf that makes male leopards change their migratory patterns permanently, it could hasten the animal’s decline even faster.
“This has got to be the oldest way in the human race to hasten death,” he said.
The Nurse Coaching People Through Death by Starvation | Nick Tabor | November 17, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAs I hasten to reassure these exasperated moms and dads, I had to be in the office anyway.
And his election would not hasten the Republican apocalypse.
Thad Cochran Wins One for Sanity Over Tea Partier Chris McDaniel | Michael Tomasky | June 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut fluctuations of mere feet during its flood season could sustain the rise of empires, or hasten their fall.
And in the case of South Africa, the divestment effort helped hasten the demise of an evil regime.
By the second process, it is made to the advantage of the issuer of the notes to hasten their withdrawal himself.
Readings in Money and Banking | Chester Arthur PhillipsWho he could not make out, except that it was a Kirton: and it prayed him to hasten down immediately.
Elster's Folly | Mrs. Henry Woodhasten the time, and remember the end, that they may declare thy wonderful works.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version | VariousHe had perhaps placed in her hand the weapon that should hasten his own defeat, stretch him bleeding on the sand.
The Wave | Algernon BlackwoodLet them hasten and take up a lamentation for us: let our eyes shed tears, and our eyelids run down with waters.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version | Various
British Dictionary definitions for hasten
/ (ˈheɪsən) /
(may take an infinitive) to hurry or cause to hurry; rush
(tr) to be anxious (to say something): I hasten to add that we are just good friends
Derived forms of hasten
- hastener, noun
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