Synonyms for hasten
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Synonyms by meaning
Verb
1. Hurry
hurry, rush, precipitate, move quickly, lose no time, forward, dispatch, despatch UK, press on, look sharp, hustle, festinate, make haste dated
3. Speed
speed, hie formal, step on it, race, hotfoot
Definitions
- v. 1
To move or act in a quick fashion.
- v. 2
To make someone speed up or make something happen quicker.
- v. 3
To cause some scheduled event to happen earlier.
Related words
- Word family
- haste
Forms
- Past participle
- hastened
e.g. hastened → hurried, rushed, precipitated, forwarded…
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To accelerate any work is to hasten it toward a finish, commonly by quickening all its operations in orderly unity toward the result. To speed is really to secure swiftness; to hasten is to attempt it, whether successfully or unsuccessfully.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- rush She started early in order to avoid the rush hour.
- hurry Hurry up, and you will be able to catch the train.
- precipitate The clouds thickened and it started to precipitate.
- urge Try to resist the urge to pick your nose, darling.
- induce Moderate exercise in the evening helps induce sleep.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| hasten | falling | |
| rush | rising | |
| hurry | rising | |
| precipitate | falling | |
| urge | falling |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- run1, hie
- 4 letters
- race1, rush1, urge1, zoom1, spur1, dart1, scud1
- 5 letters
- press1, speed1, shift1, hurry2, haste1, impel2
- 6 letters
- hustle2, induce2
- 7 letters
- forward2, quicken2, scamper2, hotfoot
- 8 letters
- dispatch2, expedite3, despatch
- 9 letters
- stimulate3, festinate
- 10 letters
- accelerate4
- 11 letters
- precipitate4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (hurry2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- hâter
- Italiano
- accelerare
- Español
- acelerar
- Deutsch
- beeilen
- Català
- apressar