hasten

hasten
[[t]he͟ɪs(ə)n[/t]]
hastens, hastening, hastened
1) VERB If you hasten an event or process, often an unpleasant one, you make it happen faster or sooner.

[V n] But if he does this, he may hasten the collapse of his own country.

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2) VERB If you hasten to do something, you are quick to do it.

[V to-inf] She more than anyone had hastened to sign the contract.

3) VERB If you hasten to say something, you quickly add something to what you have just said in order to prevent it being misunderstood.

[V to-inf] Naturally, it'll go back. But without Murray's little note, I hasten to add...

[V to-inf] `There's no threat in this, Freddie,' Arnold hastened to say...

[V to-inf] He hastened to assure me that there was nothing traumatic to report.

Syn:
be quick
4) VERB If you hasten somewhere, you hurry there. [LITERARY]

[V prep/adv] One of them, the first to alight, hastened with quicksilver steps towards me.

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