intransitive verb. To move or act swiftly. synonym: speed.

intransitive verb. To cause to move or act swiftly.

intransitive verb. To cause to happen sooner than otherwise would be the case.

intransitive verb. To speed up; accelerate.

To move or act with celerity; be rapid, speedy, or quick; make haste: applied primarily to voluntary action.

Synonyms Hasten, Hurry. To hasten is to work, move, etc., quickly, but properly not too quickly; to hurry is to go too fast for dignity, comfort, or thoroughness: as, to hasten to tell a piece of good news; to hasten the erection of a building; to hurry through a lesson; to look hurried. While hasten has come to be thus used only in a good sense, haste, n., hasty, and hastiness retain a bad meaning as well as a good: as, the book was evidently written in haste; he had a hasty temper; he had occasion to regret his hastiness. Indeed, hasty and hastiness usually convey censure.

To cause to move or act with celerity; cause to make haste; drive or urge forward; expedite.

transitive verb. To press; to drive or urge forward; to push on; to precipitate; to accelerate the movement of; to expedite; to hurry.

intransitive verb. To move with celerity; to be rapid in motion; to act speedily or quickly; to go quickly.

verb. To move in a quick fashion.

verb. To make someone speed up or make something happen quicker.

verb. To cause some scheduled event to happen earlier.

verb. speed up the progress of; facilitate

verb. act or move at high speed

verb. move fast

verb. cause to occur rapidly

"The answers to these letters left no hope that the question would be submitted to the Chambers in time to have the result known before the adjournment of Congress, and by the refusal to hasten the convocation of the Chambers before the last of December showed unequivocally that, so far from taking all measures permitted by the constitution to _hasten_ the period of presenting the law, it was to be left to the most remote period of the ordinary course of legislation."

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