Haste

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  • noun. Rapidity of action or motion.
  • noun. Rash or headlong action; precipitateness.
  • intransitive & transitive verb. To hasten or cause to hasten.
  • idiom. (make haste) To move or act swiftly; hurry.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Same as hasten: now chiefly in poetical use.
  • noun. Celerity, primarily of voluntary motion; speed in general; swiftness in doing something; despatch; expedition.
  • noun. Too great celerity of action; unwise, unnecessary, or unseemly quickness; precipitancy.
  • noun. The state of being pressed for time, or of having little time to spare; hurry; eager desire to accomplish something in a limited time: as, to be in great haste to finish a letter.
  • noun. Synonyms Haste, hurry (see hasten); nimbleness, rapidity.
  • To roast.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Celerity of motion; speed; swiftness; dispatch; expedition; -- applied only to voluntary beings, as men and other animals.
  • noun. The state of being urged or pressed by business; hurry; urgency; sudden excitement of feeling or passion; precipitance; vehemence.
  • noun. to hasten.
  • verb. To hasten; to hurry.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A speedy or quick action. (e.g. We were running late so we finished our meal in haste)
  • verb. To urge onward; to hasten
  • verb. To move with haste.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a condition of urgency making it necessary to hurry
  • noun. overly eager speed (and possible carelessness)
  • noun. the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner
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    urgency  
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    aced  based  baste  braced  chased  
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    hasted  hastes  hasting