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

One, wakeful, left His plump moss couch, and strolling near the tree Saw in the pomp of moonlight that old form Still rocking, and, with deep awe at his heart, Hastened to join his comrades.

From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 1 July 1848 by Conrad, Robert Taylor

Swift he bore it from below, Hastened to the studio, Where with anxious eyes he studied If the ruin, blotched and muddied, Could by any human skill Be made a normal picture still.

From Songs Of The Road by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

Hastened by a flaw of wind that veered from the normal direction of the breeze the stranger made sharply to windward, as if to obey.

From The Mystery by White, Stewart Edward