Definition of hasten

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Hasten (v. t.) To press; to drive or urge forward; to push on; to precipitate; to accelerate the movement of; to expedite; to hurry.

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Mature :: Mature (v. t.) To bring or hasten to maturity; to promote ripeness in; to ripen; to complete; as, to mature one's plans..
Advance :: Advance (v. t.) To make earlier, as an event or date; to hasten..
Hurry :: Hurry (v. t.) To hasten; to impel to greater speed; to urge on.
Chastened :: Chastened (a.) Corrected; disciplined; refined; purified; toned down.
Properate :: Properate (v. t. & i.) To hasten, or press forward..
Scurry :: Scurry (v. i.) To hasten away or along; to move rapidly; to hurry; as, the rabbit scurried away..
En- :: En- () A prefix signifying in or into, used in many English words, chiefly those borrowed from the French. Some English words are written indifferently with en-or in-. For ease of pronunciation it is commonly changed to em-before p, b, and m, as in employ, embody, emmew. It is sometimes used to give a causal force, as in enable, enfeeble, to cause to be, or to make, able, or feeble; and sometimes merely gives an intensive force, as in enchasten. See In-..
Acetifier :: Acetifier (n.) An apparatus for hastening acetification.
Hastener :: Hastener (n.) That which hastens; especially, a stand or reflector used for confining the heat of the fire to meat while roasting before it..
Fly :: Fly (v. i.) To move or pass swiftly; to hasten away; to circulate rapidly; as, a ship flies on the deep; a top flies around; rumor flies..
Spurgall :: Spur (v. i.) To spur on one' horse; to travel with great expedition; to hasten; hence, to press forward in any pursuit..
Stringent :: Stringendo (a.) Urging or hastening the time, as to a climax..
Flee :: Flee (v. i.) To run away, as from danger or evil; to avoid in an alarmed or cowardly manner; to hasten off; -- usually with from. This is sometimes omitted, making the verb transitive..
Enchasten :: Enchasten (v. t.) To chasten.
Expediate :: Expediate (v. t.) To hasten; to expedite.
Forward :: Forward (v. t.) To help onward; to advance; to promote; to accelerate; to quicken; to hasten; as, to forward the growth of a plant; to forward one in improvement..
Chastening :: Chastening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chaste.
Castigate :: Castigate (v. t.) To punish by stripes; to chastise by blows; to chasten; also, to chastise verbally; to reprove; to criticise severely..
Hastener :: Hastener (n.) One who hastens.
Tiger-footed :: Tiger-footed (a.) Hastening to devour; furious.
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