hasten
Other forms: hastened; hastening; hastens
The verb hasten means to move at a high speed. If you hasten to your room, no one will know that you came in late.
Hasten comes from the word haste, which means "excessive speed or urgency." The words hurry and hasten are synonyms. Hasten can also mean "to make happen quickly," like when you open a window in the kitchen when you are cooking to hasten the room's cooling down. Hasten also means "to be quick," like when you hasten to tell everyone that the rumor going around about you isn't true.
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move fast
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synonyms:
belt along, bucket along, cannonball along, hie, hotfoot, pelt along, race, rush, rush along, speed, step on it
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barge, push forward, thrust ahead
push one's way
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buck, charge, shoot, shoot down, tear
move quickly and violently
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dart, dash, flash, scoot, scud, shoot
run or move very quickly or hastily
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plunge
dash violently or with great speed or impetuosity
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rip
move precipitously or violently
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act or move at high speed
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cause to occur rapidly
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speed up the progress of; facilitate
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Vocabulary lists containing hasten
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