verb
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To move or act in a quick fashion.
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To make someone speed up or make something happen quicker.
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To cause some scheduled event to happen earlier.
Examples of hasten in a Sentence
I have just returned from my benefactor, and hasten to write down what I have experienced.
One after another they hasten to display their insignificance before him.
The art of printing had been invented in good time to help and hasten the new movement of men's minds.
This will hasten the onset of Railtrack's financial problems ' .
When he had left for the front, the emperor proceeded with Grouchy to reconnoitre the Prussian position at Gilly; and handing over the command of the right wing to the marshal, whom he ordered to capture Gilly, Napoleon returned to Charleroi, to hasten the passage of the French army across the Sambre and mass it in the gap between the allies.
All their departures are quite amicable, we hasten to add!
In that case, a gentle chemical peel from a dermatologist may hasten improvement.
The edge in his voice made her hasten her step, and she followed the chauffeur carrying her trunk into a small room.
Rousing a dog in this condition is fairly difficult and not advisable since moving will use precious energy and could hasten death.
Unlike harsher fertilizers, compost will not burn delicate plant structures with salt build-up or artificially hasten the growth process.
If you want to hasten the process, use over-the-counter skin creams designed to lighten dark spots; many of these contain hydroquinone, a bleaching ingredient.
Petroleum jelly will help protect it from a secondary infection caused by bacteria and hasten healing.
Martha was ready to rescue the girl herself but we simply agreed to do nothing to hasten the child's return.
But some in the opposition say the move is more likely to inflame political rivalries than hasten the downfall of Saddam Hussein.
Easter eggs abound - the kids have already had three each, none bought by us, I hasten to add!
Wishing to hasten a cure, he applied the ointment at double strength.
The Athenians retaliated by placing an embargo upon Megarian trade throughout their empire (432), and in the Peloponnesian War, which the Megarians had consequently striven to hasten on, reduced their neighbours to misery by blockade and devastations.
Napoleon would in this case hasten up with the reserve and crush Wellington.
A letter was now awaiting despatch to Grouchy, and to it was added a postscript that the battle was raging with Wellington, that Billow's corps had been sighted by the emperor, and that the marshal was to hasten to the field and crush Billow.
Gregory was completely subservient to Philip II.; he aided the league, excommunicated Henry of Navarre, and threatened his adherents with the ban; but the effect of his intervention was only to rally the moderate Catholics to the support of Henry, and to hasten his conversion.
A new fuel pipeline has been installed by the Army to both ease and hasten the refueling of aircraft.
This does not mean keeping still in bed, because this can hasten the stiffening of the spine.
Gently and gradually stretching and massaging the affected muscle may ease the pain and hasten recovery.
They believed this would hasten the demise of Soviet communism.
Their return to the mortal world seemed only to hasten the birth rather than slow it.
Napoleon therefore stayed his hand and proceeded to hasten forward the organization, almost the creation, of an army, with which he could confront the coalition.
Of course, if your bosses are still fairly sanguine about such cards, it is possible to hasten the process.
They appear to be the spirits of dawn, the earliest bringers of light in the morning sky; they hasten on in the clouds before Dawn and prepare the way for her.
It is not quite easy to see why he abandoned this successful policy in order to hasten on a war with Sparta, and neither the Corcyrean alliance nor the Megarian decree seems justified by the facts as known to us, though commercial motives may have played a part which we cannot now gauge.
The effect of the congress and of this propaganda was to hasten the disintegration in the Austro-Hungarian army, and the High Command (in a communiqué of July 27) admitted that wholesale defections of the Czechoslovaks and the Yugosla y s had.
At this time three prophets arrived from Zwickau, eager to hasten the movement of emancipation.
At the same time they increase the movements of the stomach, and also in this way hasten digestion, an action which extends to the upper part of the bowel.
Efforts to hasten this development have created some serious financial and industrial crises, and have burdened the country with heavy debts and taxes.
A further curious fact, doubtless of very great significance, but hitherto lacking interpretation, is that the administration of colchicum during an acute attack of gout may often hasten the oncoming of the next attack; and this property, familiar to many gouty patients, may not be affected by the administration of small doses after the attack.
Always hostile to the principality, which Bohemund established in spite of his oath, they helped by their hostility to cause the loss of Edessa in 1144, and thus to hasten the disintegration of the Latin kingdom of Jerusalem.
In fact, after some fruitless attempts to save his brother, variously related by his biographers, Joseph became aware that Andre's only chance of safety lay in being forgotten by the authorities, and that ill-advised intervention would only hasten the end.
The additional possibility of access to all humans' Digital Echoes, to be studied for a million unnoticed causal correlations, will hasten the demise of disease as well and will increase quality of life and longevity.
At Kamenka a relay of horses was to wait which would take them to the Warsaw highroad, and from there they would hasten abroad with post horses.
Soon after the Rostovs came to Moscow the effect Natasha had on him made him hasten to carry out his intention.
Beyond a certain limit no mechanical disruption of the body could hasten the process of decomposition.
These calamities were keenly felt by Akbar, and may even have tended to hasten his death, which occurred at Agra on the 15th of October 1605.
Now such an outward movement of the liquid is just what is required to hasten the removal of intervening air.
We must therefore hasten onward to the age of Pericles, in which Hippocrates, already called "the Great," was in medicine as complete a representative of the highest efforts of the Greek intellect as were his contemporaries the great philosophers, orators and tragedians.
The fall of Sana made a deep impression t Constantinople, every effort was made to hasten out reinforcements, the veteran Ahmad Feizi Pasha was nominated to the supreme command, and Anatolian troops in place of the unreliable Syrian element were detailed.
Agrippina determined to hasten the death of Claudius, and the absence, through illness, of the emperor's trusted freedman Narcissus, favoured her schemes.
The expedition had not proceeded far when Smith, discovering that the country was aroused, despatched an express to Boston for reinforcements and ordered Pitcairn to hasten forward with a detachment of light infantry.
When, however, Lysias returned in force to renew the contest, Judas had to fall back upon the Temple mount, and escaped defeat only because the Syrian leader was obliged to hasten back to Antioch in order to prevent a rival from seizing the regency.
Bars of copper drawn over the bottom by mules or water-power (like the stone drags in the arrastra) grind off fine particles of copper, which hasten the reduction of the silver and diminish the formation of calomel.
I hasten to assure you that Helen could not have received any idea of the story from any of her relations or friends here, none of whom can communicate with her readily enough to impress her with the details of a story of that character.
The wasps are said to leave the larval or pupal Metoecus unmolested, but they are hostile to the developed beetles, which hasten to leave the nest as soon as possible.