hasten

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments (1)  · 
“
Oh, my own soldier, hasten--hasten!

View all »
Definitions (12)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (3)

  1. intransitive verb To move or act swiftly.
  2. transitive verb To cause to hurry.
  3. transitive verb To speed up; accelerate: fanned the wet paint to hasten drying. See Synonyms at speed.

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (3)

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (2)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (4)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (50)

  • If you would wish those beautiful things you must hasten--to-day. —  Jewel Weed
  • Oh, my own soldier, hasten--hasten! —  The Hidden Children
  • But hasten--in God's name hasten!--ere they bethink them of it and cut off your retreat As he spoke a violent blow shook the door Quick, Your Majesty," he implored, in a frenzy Charles moved to depart, then paused. —  The Tavern Knight
  • "We will be sucked in and--hasten, for life I can't,--we're already--in the--suction CHAPTER III. —  The Lost City
  • It was criminal to send the poor lad into the jaws of death, but now--hasten, there may be a chance, even yet The call was still hot upon his lips when his two companions entered the aerostat, gripping tight the hand-rail as Professor Featherwit sent the vessel afloat with reckless haste. —  The Lost City
More examples »
 

Tags

hasten hasn't been tagged yet.

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 142 times.

stop updating
On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Add a related word »
Related

Roget's II Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

Allen's Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms

Used in the same contextWord Family

hasten:   hastened ·  hastening ·  hastens
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary. Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Etymologies (1)

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (1)

  1. A modern extension of haste, q. v.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »
/ˈheɪsn/
by American Heritage

Charts
frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

You can expect to see this word about twice a week.

Recently looked up

booming · applejack · optimists · hodgepodge · Oom

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

Der dicke Dachdecker deckte dir dein Dach, drum dank dem dicken Dachdecker, dass der dicke Dachdecker dir dein Dach deckte. · weitläufig · und wenn sie nicht gestorben sind, so leben sie noch heute · redescheu · selbstverständlich