Hasten

Definition: Hasten

Hasten

Verb

1. Act or move at high speed; "We have to rush!".

2. Step on it; "He rushed down the hall to receive his guests"; "The cars raced down the street".

3. Speed up the progress of; facilitate; "This should expedite the process".

4. Of bodily processes such as fever, illness, etc.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "hasten" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Synonyms: Hasten

Activity

Verb: be active; Adjective: busy oneself in; stir, stir about, stir one's stumps; bestir oneself, rouse oneself; speed, hasten, peg away, lay about one, bustle, fuss; raise up, kick up a dust; push; make a push, make a fuss, make a stir; go ahead, push forward; fight one's way, elbow one's way; make progress; toll; (labor); plod, persist; (persevere) a; keep up the ball, keep the pot boiling.

Aid

Expedite, speed, quicken, hasten.

Haste

Verb: haste, hasten; make haste, make a dash; Noun: hurry on, dash on, whip on, push on, press on, press forward; hurry, skurry, scuttle along, barrel along, bundle on, dart to and fro, bustle, flutter, scramble; plunge, plunge headlong; dash off; rush; (violence); express.

Velocity

Verb: move quickly, trip, fisk; speed, hie, hasten, post, spank, scuttle; scud, scuddle; scour, scour the plain; scamper; run like mad, beat it; fly, race, run a race, cut away, shot, tear, whisk, zoom, swoosh, sweep, skim, brush; cut along, bowl along, barrel along, barrel; scorch, burn up the track; rush; (be violent); dash on, dash off, dash forward; bolt; trot, gallop, amble, troll, bound, flit, spring, dart, boom; march in quick time, march in double time; ride hard, get over the ground.

Hurry; (hasten); accelerate, put on; quicken; quicken one's pace, mend one's pace; clap spurs to one's horse; make haste, make rapid strides, make forced marches, make the best of one's way; put one's best leg foremost, stir one's stumps, wing one's way, set off at a score; carry sail, crowd sail; go off like a shot, go like a shot, go ahead, gain ground; outstrip the wind, fly on the wings of the wind.

Crosswords: Hasten

Basque (start), German (hasten, hurry, hustle, scat, scurry, skelter).

I hasten to add that since each man will be required to do prodigious service along these lines, the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature (Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb; writing credit: Peter George; Stanley Kubrick)

Stop! Look! and Hasten! (1954)

Hasten Slowly: The Journey of Sir Laurens van der Post (1997)

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Books

• Hasten my work (reference)

• Hasten Slowly (reference)

• Hasten the Kingdom: Praying the O Antiphons of Advent (reference)

• Hasten to Danger [LARGE PRINT] (reference)

• I Shall Not Die: An Autobiography of Hart N. Hasten (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Hasten Slowly: The Journey of Sir Laurens van der Post (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Hasten Down the Wind (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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I hasten to heartily and sincerely wish you well!. Credit: Library of Congress.

Pogo]. It's time for us to be gone, child -- hasten home. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

They did not seem to hasten, and still they walked faster than I.

I went into another chamber, but was ready to hasten back, being almost overcome with a horrible stink

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Health

Sometimes physicians will treat the child with an antibiotic to hasten the elimination of the fluid. (references)

Business

As a pure cost without a useful end or by-product, battery recycling will not voluntarily be undertaken in the UK. The battery industry is of the view, however, that local recycling will become a more commercial proposition when mixed battery feedstock becomes mercury-free, and the recent adoption of lower mercury tolerances across the EU will hasten this prospect. (references)

Economic History

Vietnam

Access to the U.S. market will allow Vietnam to hasten its transformation into a manufacturing-based, export-oriented economy. (references)

Minorities

Japan

Beginning in 1969, the Government introduced with some success a number of social, economic, and legal programs designed to improve conditions for the Burakumin and hasten their assimilation into mainstream society. (references)

Political Economy

Cote D'ivoire

Relations with the United States were traditionally excellent, but during military rule, the U.S. pressured the military government to improve human rights, government transparency, and hasten return to civilian rule. (references)

Trade

Zambia

Generally a list describing the goods, prepared in duplicate well in advance would hasten clearance on entry. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "hasten": hasten along ♦ hasten away ♦ hasten back ♦ hasten off ♦ make hasten. Additional references.

Albanian

shpejtoj (accelerate, fleet, get a move on, hurry, precipitate, quicken, speed), nxitoj (accelerate, bustle, chase, get a move on, hie, hotfoot, hurry, hurry up, hustle, pelt, post, run, skip, speed up), nxitohem (hurry up), ngutem (bustle, bustle about, gallop, hurry, hustle, rush, skip), ngut (haste, hurry, hustle, rush, urgency). (various references)

Arabic 

‏سرع (accelerate, career, chase, fast, force, get a move on, gun, hurry up, hustle, lollop, pelt, pounce, push, quicken, rush, smarten, speed, speed up, step on it, throttle, trot), ‏عجل (accelerate, advance, anticipate, bicker, bullock, calf, dash, expedite, hurry, hustle, precipitate, run, speed, speed up, tire, veal), ‏عاجل (accelerate, immediate, instant, precipitate, prompt, rapid, speedy, summary), ‏إستعجل (bustle, dash, press, spring, surge). (various references)

Bulgarian 

ускорявам (accelerate, activate, advance, expedite, force, forward, hurry, hurry up, hustle, precipitate, quicken, smarten up, speed up, trigger, urge, zip), бързам (bustle about, fly, hie, hurry, hurry up, hustle, nip along, pelt, post), побързвам (be nippy, hurry up, make haste, nip along, quicken one's pace), движа се бързо (clip, double, jump, scour, scud, shift, spank, speed, spin, travel, whirl, zoom), действувам бързо. (various references)

Chinese 

趲 (urge), 趕忙 (hurry, make haste), 駛 (proceed to, sail a vessel), 騁 (gallop, open up, run), 催促 (Hastened, hastening, Hustled, Hustling). (various references)

Czech

uspíšit (accelerate, hurry, hurry along, hurry up, precipitate), spìchat (fling away, hie, hurry, hurry up, scurry, speed). (various references)

Farsi 

تسریع ردن , شتافتن , شتاباندن (Accelerate, Precipitate). (various references)

Finnish

rientoaskel (hurry, speed), riento (hurry, speed), rientää (hurry, speed), kiiruhtaa (hurry, make haste), kiirehtiä (expedite, hurry, hurry on, make haste), jouduttaa (accelerate, hurry, speed up, urge . . on). (various references)

French

hâter, s'empresser, se hâter, se dépêcher, empressons, empressent, accourez, accourent, accélérer. (various references)

German

hasten, eilen, hasten (hurry, hustle, scat, scurry, skelter), sich beeilen (be in a hurry, be pressing, be urgent, get a move on, hasting, hurry, hurry along, hurry up, to hurry up), eilen (be in a hurry, be pressing, be urgent, bustle, go fast, haste, hie, hurry, hustle, race, run, rush, scud, to hasten, to hurry, to scud), beschleunigen (accelerate, advance, expedite, force, forward, hurry, hurry along, hurry up, increase, precipitate, quicken, speed along, speed up, speedup, to accelerate, to expedite, to speed up, to speedup, to step up, urge), beeilen (accelerate, hurry, speed up). (various references)

Greek 

σπεύδω (buck up, haste, hie, hurry, hustle, rush, scurry, scurry about, speed). (various references)

Hebrew 

למ�"ר (hurry, pelt, precipitate, push on, quicken, rush, speed), לאוץ (hurry, make haste), לזרז (expedite, hurry, hurry up, hustle, precipitate, quicken, urge), ל�"חיש (accelerate, expedite, hurry, speed up), ל�"ז�"רז (get a move on, hurry up, hustle, make it snappy, step on it), ל�"ב�"ל (be alarmed, be disturbed, be scared, be terrified), לסר�"ב (beseech, importune, press, urge). (various references)

Hungarian

siettet (accelerate, anticipate, bustle, expedite, hurry, hurry up, press on, to accelerate, to antedate, to anticipate, to be not slow to, to expedite, to precipitate, to press forward, to press on, urge), siet (hie, hurry, hurry up, sped, to be in a hurry, to bucket, to gird, to hasten, to hie, to hie one's way, to hurry, to nip along, to put on, to scurry, to skelp, to skitter, to speed, to succour, to whirl), sürget (push, to exhort, to expedite, to fillip, to force sy's hand, to importune, to precipitate, to press forward, to press on, to push, to push on, to rush). (various references)

Indonesian

mempercepat (accelerate), berbangat. (various references)

Italian

sollecitarsi, sollecitare (canvass, hurry, importune, press for, solicit, stress, tickle, urge, woo), precipitarsi (charge, dash, hurtle, plunge, rush, rush over, rush up, storm, tumble), precipitare (come to a head, crash, dash, fall, plummet, precipitate, rush, rustle, throw down, throw oneself), affrettarsi (go, go fast, hie, hurry, hurry up, hustle, rush, scramble, scurry, speed), affrettare (advance, aid, expedite, hurry, make hasten, quicken, rush). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

進める (to advance, to hasten, to promote). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

すすめる (to advance, to advise, to encourage, to hasten, to offer, to promote, to recommend), しにいそぐ (to hasten one's death), さき�'いそぐ (to hasten, to hurry), かけつける (to come running, to hasten, to run to, to rush), はせさ�"じる (to hasten to join), はやめる (to accelerate, to expedite, to hasten, to precipitate, to quicken), とりいそぐ (to hasten, to hurry). (various references)

Korean 

서두르십시�". (various references)

Manx

siyraghey (accelerate, acceleration, bustling about, expedite, expedition, hastening, hurry, hurry along, hurry up, hustle), kirtaghey (hustle, spin along), kirtagh (hastening, hurry along, speed, speeding). (various references)

Norwegian

skynde seg, skynde på. (various references)

Pig Latin

astenhay.(various references)

Portuguese

precipitar (accelerate, deposit, fly, gravitate, haste, hurry), ativar (activate, arouse, awake, bestir, brisk, haste, jog, quicken, smarten, stimulate), apressar (accelerate, anticipate, bustle, expedite, haste, hurry, hustle, press, quicken, rush, speed, urge), antecipar (antedate, anticipate, haste, look forward, prevent, think ahead), acelerar (accelerate, expedite, haste, hurry, quicken, smarten, speed, speed up, urge). (various references)

Romanian

zori (bustle, cock crow, crowd, daybreak, daylight, dayspring, hurry, hustle, morning, press, quicken, reveille, rush, spur, spur on, urge), se grãbi (bucket, bundle, fly, gallop, get jerk, hurry, make haste, rush, speed, spur, whisk along), precipita (deposit, hurry, precipitate, rush), grãbi (accelerate, anticipate, bustle, expedite, force, forward, hurry, hustle, mend one's pace, precipitate, press, push, push on, quicken, rush, smarten up, speed, spur, wing), brusca, alerga (career, chase, collide, course, elapse, flow, fly, go, go the pace, haste, hurry, race, run, rush, scamper, scour, spank, urge, walk), activa (accelerate, act, activate, actuate, dispatch, expedite, facilitate, stimulate, work), accelera (accelerate, dispatch, expedite, force, forward, hurry, mend, precipitate, push, push on, quicken, smarten up, speed up, wing). (various references)

Russian 

торопиться (be in a hurry, hie, hurry, hurry up, look alive, make haste). (various references)

Scottish

greas (go fast, hurry, incite to speed : greas ort, rush, urge). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ubrzati (accelerate, expedite, make fast, precipitate, quicken, speed, speed up), požuriti (hurry, hurry up, rush, speed up, step on). (various references)

Spanish

darse prisa (bestir oneself, buck up, get a move on, hurry up, hustle, make haste, shake a leg, speed, step on it), apresurarse (bucket, bustle, go fast, hurry, jump at, press forward, press on, quicken, rush, speed), acelerar (accelerate, activate, expedite, gun, hurry, hustle, open up, put on speed, quicken, Rev, speed up, spurt). (various references)

Swedish

skynda (hotfoot, hurry, scud, scurry, scuttle, zip), påskynda (expedite, hurry, hustle, precipitate, quicken), hasta (hie, hurry). (various references)

Thai

รีบเร่ง (hasty, rush). (various references)

Turkish

hızlandırmak (accelerate, expedite, force the pace, ginger, ginger up, hurry, jazz, jazz up, pour it on, pour on the speed, precipitate, quicken, Rev, rev up, speed, speed up, whip up, wing), telaşlandırmak (alarm, excite, flurry, fluster, fuss, put in a flurry, ruffle), iki ayağını bir pabuca sokmak (flurry, fluster, rush smb. off one's feet), acele ettirmek (bundle, bustle up, hurry, hurry up, hustle, rush, rush smb. off one's feet), acele etmek (be in a hurry, buck up, come along, drive, get a move on, hie, hotfoot, hotfoot it, hurry, hurry up, hustle, make haste, put a jerk in it, rush, scour, scour about, scurry, shake a leg, step on it, streak, trot). (various references)

Turkmen 

alсasatmak. (various references)

Ukrainian

квапити (hie, press, rush, spank), прискорювати (accelerate, advance, anticipate, expedite, forward, hurry, precipitate, push, rattle through, speed, speed up, streamline, swiften), поспішати (be in haste, bustle, hie, hurry, push forward, scurry, speed, swiften). (various references)

Welsh

prysuro (hurry), ffrystio (hurry), brysio (hurry). (various references)

ul. (various references)

accelero, adcelera, adcelerare, adceleraret, adcelerat, adceleravit, contendam, contendas, contendat, contende, contendebant, contendebat, contendentes, contendere, contenderit, contendet, contendi, contendimus, contendis, contendit, contendite, contenditis, contendo, contenta, contenti, contentus, cucurrerint, cucurrerit, cucurrero, cucurrerunt, cucurri, cucurrisset, cucurrit, curram, curramus, currat, curre, currebant, currebas, currebat, currebatis, curremus, currendam, currendum, currens, current, currentem, currentes, currenti, currentis, currentium, currere, currerem, curret, curris, currit, currite, curro, currunt, cursu, cursum, cursus, decurrant, decurrens, decurrent, decurrentes, decurrentis, decurrere, decurrit, decurrunt, festina, festinabant, festinabat, festinabit, festinabo, festinans, festinant, festinantes, festinare, festinarent, festinaret, festinas, festinat, festinata, festinate, festinato, festinatoque, festinatum, festinatur, festinaverunt, festinavi, festinavimus, festinavit, festinavitque, festinemus, festinent, festines, festinet, maturavit, vado, volito. (various references)

efstan, onettan. (various references)

despacher. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "hasten": hastened, hastener, hasteners, hastening, hastens. (additional references)

Words ending with "hasten": chasten. (additional references)

Words containing "hasten": chastened, chastener, chasteners, chasteness, chastenesses, chastening, chastens, unchasteness, unchastenesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Hasten" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Baksteen, casten, gasten, Hadston, Haesje, Halston, Hamsten, Hamtun, hapten, hasent, Hassen, hasta, haster, hastes, hastey, hasto, hastow, hatan, haten, Hatston, hatten, Hatun, Hausen, Hauteyn, haystoun, Hiaasen, hissen, hiten, Hosken, hosteg, Hotten, Huasta, Hugten, Husen, Kasten, Khamseen, Shaston, Vadstena, vasten, Whashton. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: snathe, thanes.

-1 letter: antes, ashen, etnas, haets, hanse, hants, haste, hates, heats, hents, nates, neath, neats, shent, snath, stane, thane, thens.

-2 letters: anes, ante, ants, ates, east, eath, eats, etas, eths, etna, haen, haes, haet, hant, hast, hate, hats, heat, hens, hent, hest, hets, neat, nest, nets, sane, sate, seat, sent, seta, shea, tans, teas.

+1 letter: anthems, anthers, astheny, chasten, ethanes, handset, hantles, haptens, hastens, hetmans, shantey, sheitan, snathes, stengah, sthenia, thenars.

+2 letters: absinthe, anethols, antheses, anthesis, asthenia, asthenic, bethanks, chanters, chanteys, chanties, chastens, enchants, ensheath, enswathe, enthrals, etchants, ethanols, gahnites, hairnets, handiest, handsets, hangnest, haptenes, hastened, hastener, haunters, heartens, heathens, hematins, heptanes, hesitant, humanest, inearths, insheath, inswathe, khanates, manchets, methanes, nathless, nautches, panthers, phaetons, pheasant, phenates, phonates, phytanes, shanteys, shanties, sheitans, shetland, snatched, snatcher, snatches, stanched, stancher, stanches, stanhope, stengahs, sthenias, sunbathe, thanages, thankers, thenages, thespian, tranches, trashmen, unchaste, unearths, unswathe, urethans, whatness, wheatens.