hastened

VERB

speed something; hurry

Synonyms

STRONGEST

accelerate expedite precipitate quicken step up urge

STRONG

advance bolt bound burn bustle clip dash dispatch express flee fly gallop goad hie hustle leap pace plunge press push race run rush scamper scoot scurry scuttle skip sprint spurt tear trot

WEAK

cover ground get cracking get the lead out haste make haste make tracks move quickly not lose a minute shake a leg step on it take wing waste no time whip around

Antonyms

STRONGEST

check decelerate halt hinder retard slow

STRONG

aid dawdle discourage dissuade face help meet pull stand stay stop wait walk

WEAK

go slow lag linger loiter procrastinate rest tarry

Example Sentences

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Appeared in the October 24, 2025, print edition as 'Key Plant Restart Hastened'.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025

They tried to put it on a postage stamp saying, “Atomic Bomb Hastened War’s End.”

From Slate • May 11, 2016

Strong blew the wind; the cloud Hastened away.

From The Wisdom of Confucius with Critical and Biographical Sketches by Wilson, Epiphanius

By it also, Conception is Caused, the Birth Hastened and facilitated, Beauty Gain’d and continued.

From Chocolate: or, An Indian Drinke By the wise and Moderate use whereof, Health is preserved, Sicknesse Diverted, and Cured, especially the Plague of the Guts; vulgarly called The New Disease ; Fluxes, Consumptions, & Coughs of the Lungs, with sundry other desperate Diseases. By it also, Conception is Caused, the Birth Hastened and facilitated, Beauty Gain'd and continued. by Wadsworth, James

Then waved wasted hands Over the youth in act of blessing him, But faltered, "Cleanse me through his innocence, O heavenly Father!" and with quickening steps Hastened away upon the road to Rome.

From The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 1 by Lazarus, Emma