hasten
IPA: hˈeɪsʌn
noun
- A surname from Dutch.
verb
- (intransitive) To move or act in a quick fashion.
- (transitive) To make someone speed up or make something happen quicker.
- (transitive) To cause some scheduled event to happen earlier.
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Examples of "hasten" in Sentences
- His death was hastened by intemperance.
- The government is intent on hastening that trend.
- He then hastened out of the room, ignoring shouted questions.
- His vexation at this loss is said to have hastened his death.
- The privatization of JAL in the mid 1980s hastened the process.
- Advantage of treatment is to hasten the resolution of the virus.
- A second cut is made in the tail to hasten the removal of blood.
- The newly elected councillors hastened to suspend the taxes and the tolls.
- This is in the interest of avoiding conflict and hastens the writing process.
- The Russian tsar sent an envoy to meet with the French to hasten the surrender.
- It will be further observed that the criminal undertook to "hasten" to the port of departure.
- His description of the roads over the Alps is clear, lively, and accurate.] 56 Zosimus as well as Eusebius hasten from the passage of the Alps to the decisive action near
- It also asked Radebe to "hasten" the availability of the R3 million allocated by cabinet for the upgrading of public transport in preparation for the 2010 Soccer World Cup.
- But Stephen's object in mentioning David is to hasten from the tabernacle which he set up, to the temple which his son built, in Jerusalem; and this only to show, from their own Scripture (Isa
- Apologists for ignoring the other side of the DV coin hasten to point out that while, yes, women commit domestic violence as readily as men, they don't do as much damage, and that's what's important.
- "There was no regular order of march, but each rushed onward at his utmost speed, praying aloud to God for help to increase it, and calling frantically to his fellows to 'hasten, _hasten_ to the rescue of all they held most dear.'
- I pretended to go into the city: I did so; and returned about the hour I supposed my brother in the wood: I fastened my horse at the entrance of it, changed my dress, put a mask on my face, and crept on towards the lower part; I distinguished him through trees - let me hasten from the remembrance!
- The answers to these letters left no hope that the question would be submitted to the Chambers in time to have the result known before the adjournment of Congress, and by the refusal to hasten the convocation of the Chambers before the last of December showed unequivocally that, so far from taking all measures permitted by the constitution to _hasten_ the period of presenting the law, it was to be left to the most remote period of the ordinary course of legislation.