hasten
/ˈheɪ.sn̩/
hasten verb: to move or act in a quick fashion.
Verb
hasten (third-person singular simple present hastens, present participle hastening, simple past and past participle hastened)
- To move or act in a quick fashion.
- Synonyms:
- dart
- To make someone speed up or make something happen quicker.
- I would hasten my escape from the windy storm.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 55:8
- Hamlet:
Bid the players make haste.
Will you two help to hasten them?c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...
- Synonyms:
- accelerate
- To cause some scheduled event to happen earlier.
- The decision to hasten completion of the electrification of London Midland Region main lines from Euston to the north and the subsequent diversion of some traffic to the Western Region in order to allow the engineers fuller track occupation, have focused attention on the two main routes between...1960 February, R. C. Riley, “The London-Birmingham services - Past, Present and Future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 96
- […]and prescribed policies and packages of military, economic and technical assistance to hasten their inevitable march toward development and modernity.2008, Bradley Simpson, Economists with Guns, page 7
- Synonyms:
- hurry
Proper noun capitalized: Hasten
Hasten (plural Hastens)
- A surname from Dutch.
hasten meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada
hasten in Tamil
- துரிதப்படுத்து
hasten in Urdu
- جلدی کرنا, عجلت بازی کرنا
hasten in Malayalam
- to hasten, hurry
- ഉഴപ്പുക uḻappuka
hasten in Kannada
- ಅವಸರಪಡಿಸು, ತ್ವರೆಗೊಳಿಸು, ಆತುರಪಡಿಸು, ವೇಗಗೊಳಿಸು, ತೀವ್ರಗೊಳಿಸು, ಬೇಗ ಮಾಡು
More languagesFewer languages
- hasten in Sanskrit
- रंहति raṃhati
- hasten in Thai
- รีบ rîip, เร่ง rêng
Examples of hasten in a sentence
- A cold, biting wind blew across the moor, and the travellers hastened their step.
- They hastened outside between storms to shore up the damaged fence.
- The hotel staff hastened to turn out the noisy drunk.
Synonyms of hasten
Forms of hasten
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | hastens |
| present participle | hastening |
| past participle | hastened |
| past | hastened |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Hastens |
Origin of hasten
Originally intransitive, from haste + -en (verbal suffix).
Shortened form of Dutch van Hasten.
Words formed from hasten
Words that rhyme with hasten
Questions about hasten
- What does hasten mean?
- Hasten means to move or act in a quick fashion.
- What is hasten in Tamil?
- Hasten in Tamil is துரிதப்படுத்து. See Hasten meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is hasten?
- Hasten can be a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce hasten?
- Hasten is pronounced /ˈheɪ.sn̩/.
- What is the past tense of hasten?
- The past tense of hasten is hastened.
Words near hasten in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: hasten (page history and authors); Hasten (page history and authors); hasten (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); hasten (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ഉഴപ്പുക (Malayalam) (page history and authors); hasten (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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