hastenverb
uk/ˈheɪ.sən/us/ˈheɪ.sən/formal[ T ] to make something happen sooner or more quickly:
There is little doubt that poor medical treatment hastened her death.
These recent poor results have hastened the manager's departure.
[ + to infinitive ] If you hasten to do something, you quickly do it:
The president hastened to reassure his people that he was in perfect health.
[ + to infinitive ] If you hasten to say something, you want to make it clear:
It was an unfortunate decision and I hasten to say it had nothing to do with me.
"People around here dress so badly - except you, Justin," she hastened to add.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Hurrying and doing things quickly
- accelerate
- acceleration
- against the clock idiom
- against time/the clock idiom
- alacrity
- dose
- grease
- haste
- hasty
- hit/press/push the panic button idiom
- hurried
- patch
- rush
- rush into sth
- rush job
- rushed
- scrabble
- sharpish
- snap
- throw
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