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make haste

make haste verb: to hurry or hasten.

Verb

make haste (third-person singular simple present makes haste, present participle making haste, simple past and past participle made haste)

  1. (dated, intransitive) To hurry or hasten.
    • Since I have your good leave to go away,
      I will make haste: but, till I come again,
      No bed shall e'er be guilty of my stay,
      Nor rest be interposer 'twixt us twain.c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
    • 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...

make haste meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Kannada

make haste in Tamil

ஈண்டு

make haste in Urdu

جلدی کرنا, لپکنا

make haste in Kannada

ಅಟ್ಟುಗೊಳ್ಳು

Forms of make haste

third-person singular presentmakes haste
present participlemaking haste
past participlemade haste
pastmade haste

Words formed from make haste

Questions about make haste

What does make haste mean?
Make haste means to hurry or hasten.
What is make haste in Tamil?
Make haste in Tamil is ஈண்டு. See Make haste meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is make haste?
Make haste is a verb.
What is the past tense of make haste?
The past tense of make haste is made haste.

Words near make haste in the dictionary

  1. make good one's running
  2. make good time
  3. make ground
  4. make happen
  5. make hard work of
  6. make haste
  7. make haste slowly
  8. make hay
  9. make hay while the sun shines
  10. make head against
  11. make head nor tail of

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Adapted from Wiktionary: make haste (page history and authors); make haste (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); make haste (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); make haste (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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