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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Chasteness :: Chasteness (n.) Chastity; purity.
Rap :: Rap (v.) To hasten.
Properate :: Properate (v. t. & i.) To hasten, or press forward..
Expedite :: Expedite (v. t.) To relieve of impediments; to facilitate; to accelerate the process or progress of; to hasten; to quicken; as, to expedite the growth of plants..
Chasteness :: Chasteness (n.) Freedom from all that is meretricious, gaudy, or affected; as, chasteness of design..
Quicken :: Quicken (a.) To make lively, active, or sprightly; to impart additional energy to; to stimulate; to make quick or rapid; to hasten; to accelerate; as, to quicken one's steps or thoughts; to quicken one's departure or speed..
Expede :: Expede (v. t.) To expedite; to hasten.
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-..
Stringent :: Stringendo (a.) Urging or hastening the time, as to a climax..
Castigate :: Castigate (v. t.) To punish by stripes; to chastise by blows; to chasten; also, to chastise verbally; to reprove; to criticise severely..
Chasten :: Chasten (v. t.) To correct by punishment; to inflict pain upon the purpose of reclaiming; to discipline; as, to chasten a son with a rod..
Acetifier :: Acetifier (n.) An apparatus for hastening acetification.
Scurry :: Scurry (v. i.) To hasten away or along; to move rapidly; to hurry; as, the rabbit scurried away..
Steep :: Steep (n.) Something steeped, or used in steeping; a fertilizing liquid to hasten the germination of seeds..
Advance :: Advance (v. t.) To make earlier, as an event or date; to hasten..
Chastened :: Chastened (a.) Corrected; disciplined; refined; purified; toned down.
Chastity :: Chastity (n.) Chasteness.
Chastened :: Chastened (imp. & p. p.) of Chaste.
Speed :: Speed (v. t.) To hasten to a conclusion; to expedite.
Speed :: Speed (v. t.) To cause to make haste; to dispatch with celerity; to drive at full speed; hence, to hasten; to hurry..
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