hasten

[ hey-suhn ]

/ ˈheɪ sən /

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verb (used without object)

to move or act with haste; proceed with haste; hurry: to hasten to a place.

verb (used with object)

to cause to hasten; accelerate: to hasten someone from a room; to hasten the arrival of a happier time.

OTHER WORDS FOR hasten

2 urge, press; expedite, quicken, speed; precipitate.

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Origin of hasten

First recorded in 1565–75; haste + -en¹

OTHER WORDS FROM hasten

has·ten·er, nounouthasten, verb (used with object)o·ver·has·ten, verbun·has·tened, adjective

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How to use hasten in a sentence

If the EUA is granted, the vaccine will be the third authorized for use in the US against the pandemic coronavirus, likely boosting the vaccine supply in the coming months and helping to hasten immunization country-wide.
FDA now reviewing a third COVID vaccine made by Johnson & Johnson|Beth Mole|February 5, 2021|Ars Technica
Hastening her decline has been a downturn in Brazil's economic fortunes.
Can Dilma Rousseff Recover?||August 24, 2013|DAILY BEAST
I was hastening to the British national archives to immerse myself in old documents.
‘Soldaten: Secret WWII Transcripts of German POWs’ by Soenke Neitzel & Harald Welzer|Sönke Neitzel, Harald Welzer|September 24, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Israel in PerilDavid Shulman, The New York Review of Books How the Jewish state is hastening its own demise.
The Week’s Best Longreads: The Daily Beast Picks for May 18, 2012|David Sessions|May 18, 2012|DAILY BEAST

Literally every day seems to bring another announcement about studios hastening the release of major films, on DVD and on-demand.
Meet the Movie Theater of the Future|Kim Masters|November 12, 2009|DAILY BEAST
And what would Brooks have Obama do if the road to “hastening” were paved with weeks of bloodshed?
Leave Iran to the Iranians|Leslie H. Gelb|June 21, 2009|DAILY BEAST
Anselme, thus enjoined, lent an unwonted alacrity to his movements, waddling grotesquely like a hastening waterfowl.
St. Martin's Summer|Rafael Sabatini
One evening, rather more than a week after the marriage, Hedges had been on an errand to Calne, and was hastening home.
Elster's Folly|Mrs. Henry Wood
He disappeared and she turned away with a sigh, to meet her uncle hastening towards her.
The Red Year|Louis Tracy
Meanwhile young Englishmen of quality and fortune were hastening in crowds to Paris.
The History of England from the Accession of James II.|Thomas Babington Macaulay
I stood looking on, determined to let him have his course; he was only hastening his own fate, and why should I prevent it?
Confessions of a Thug|Philip Meadows Taylor

British Dictionary definitions for hasten

hasten

/ (ˈheɪsən) /

verb

(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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