hasten

Verb

Verb Forms: hastened, hastening, hastens

• To move or act quickly; to accelerate.
• act or move at high speed
• move fast
• speed up the progress of; facilitate
• cause to occur rapidly
• To move or act in a quick fashion.
• To make someone speed up or make something happen quicker.
• To cause some scheduled event to happen earlier.

Examples

• He needed to HASTEN his decision, as the time clock was ticking down in the Scrabble tournament.

Synonyms

belt along, bucket along, cannonball along, expedite, festinate, hie, hotfoot, hurry, induce, look sharp, pelt along, race, rush, rush along, speed, step on it, stimulate, accelerate, dart, move quickly, quicken, speed up, zoom

Antonyms

linger

Related Words

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