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Hasten   /hˈeɪsən/   Listen
Hasten

verb
(past & past part. hastened; pres. part. hastening)
1.
Act or move at high speed.  Synonyms: festinate, hurry, look sharp, rush.  "Hurry--it's late!"
2.
Move fast.  Synonyms: belt along, bucket along, cannonball along, hie, hotfoot, pelt along, race, rush, rush along, speed, step on it.  "The cars raced down the street"
3.
Speed up the progress of; facilitate.  Synonym: expedite.
4.
Cause to occur rapidly.  Synonyms: induce, rush, stimulate.






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"Hasten" Quotes from Famous Books



... that he had asked for me, regretted me, and loved me filially up to the very end. It was thought fit to conceal this from me till then. It was also thought fit to conceal from him that I was ready to hasten to him. ...
— Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician - Volume 1-2, Complete • Frederick Niecks

... and devastation. This is the moment to humble ourselves before the God of Sleep; to beseech him to open his dusky portals; and admit us into the repose of his retired kingdom. If you are inclined to become a suppliant, hasten to the Tyrol, and we will search together about the mountains, traverse the poppy-meads, and look into every chasm and fissure that excludes daylight, in hopes of discovering the mansion of repose. Then when we have found this corner (or I think our search will be successful) Morpheus will give ...
— Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents • William Beckford

... the bounty of considerate friends, and have ached at heart because I could not spare a portion of it, as I saw other boys do, to some favorite boy; for if I know my own heart, I was never selfish,—never possessed a luxury which I did not hasten to communicate to others; but my food, alas! was none; it was an indispensable necessary; I could as soon have spared the blood in my veins, as have parted that with ...
— The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 • Charles Lamb

... exercise caution when we get close to the Cove," said Captain Folsom. "And now, if we are all ready, let us start. Every second's delay is so much time lost. They'll be working fast. If we are to gain any information, we must hasten ...
— The Radio Boys with the Revenue Guards • Gerald Breckenridge

... and that the Turks were loosing off a lot of the ammunition they knew they could not carry away. They were probably right, though the enemy made no sign of going away for a couple of days, but if he thought his demonstration by artillery was going to hasten back to Gaza some of the troops assembling against the left of his main line he was grievously in error. The XXIst Corps was strong enough to deal with any attack the Turks could launch, and they would have been ...
— How Jerusalem Was Won - Being the Record of Allenby's Campaign in Palestine • W.T. Massey


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