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synonyms for hasten

  • accelerate
  • expedite
  • precipitate
  • quicken
  • step up
  • urge
  • 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
  • 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
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antonyms for hasten

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  • check
  • decelerate
  • halt
  • hinder
  • retard
  • slow
  • aid
  • dawdle
  • discourage
  • dissuade
  • face
  • help
  • meet
  • pull
  • stand
  • stay
  • stop
  • wait
  • walk
  • lag
  • linger
  • loiter
  • procrastinate
  • rest
  • tarry
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How to use hasten in a sentence

While USTR’s profile heightened, Lighthizer largely avoided the limelight, knowing that upstaging his boss could hasten his exit.
ROBERT LIGHTHIZER BLEW UP 60 YEARS OF TRADE POLICY. NOBODY KNOWS WHAT HAPPENS NEXT.BY LYDIA DEPILLISOCTOBER 13, 2020PROPUBLICA
“These results suggest cultivating awe enhances positive emotions that foster social connection and diminishes negative emotions that hasten decline,” the researchers concluded in their paper.
REGULAR DOSES OF AWE CAN DO WONDERS FOR EMOTIONAL HEALTHKAT ESCHNERSEPTEMBER 22, 2020POPULAR-SCIENCE
New seafloor maps reveal the first clear view of a system of channels that may be helping to hasten the demise of West Antarctica’s vulnerable Thwaites Glacier.
NEW MAPS SHOW HOW WARM WATER MAY REACH THWAITES GLACIER’S ICY UNDERBELLYCAROLYN GRAMLINGSEPTEMBER 9, 2020SCIENCE NEWS
Biochemical changes from loneliness can accelerate the spread of cancer, hasten heart disease and Alzheimer’s, or simply drain the most vital among us of the will to go on.
WHY DO YOU FEEL LONELY? NEUROSCIENCE IS STARTING TO FIND ANSWERS.AMY NORDRUMSEPTEMBER 4, 2020MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW
If that makes male leopards change their migratory patterns permanently, it could hasten the animal’s decline even faster.
LEOPARDS ARE INDEED CHANGING THEIR SPOTSEROMO EGBEJULEAUGUST 14, 2020OZY
By the second process, it is made to the advantage of the issuer of the notes to hasten their withdrawal himself.
READINGS IN MONEY AND BANKINGCHESTER ARTHUR PHILLIPS
Who he could not make out, except that it was a Kirton: and it prayed him to hasten down immediately.
ELSTER'S FOLLYMRS. HENRY WOOD
Hasten the time, and remember the end, that they may declare thy wonderful works.
THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSIONVARIOUS
He had perhaps placed in her hand the weapon that should hasten his own defeat, stretch him bleeding on the sand.
THE WAVEALGERNON BLACKWOOD
Let them hasten and take up a lamentation for us: let our eyes shed tears, and our eyelids run down with waters.
THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSIONVARIOUS
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