1 [Vtoinf] to say or do sth without delay:
She saw his frown and hastened to explain. * He has been described as a 'charmless bore'-not by me, I hasten to add.
2 [VN] (written) to make sth happen sooner or more quickly:
The treatment she received may, in fact, have hastened her death. * News of the scandal certainly hastened his departure from office.
3 [V+adv./prep.] (literary) to go or move somewhere quickly
SYNHURRY:
We hastened back to Rome.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for hasten is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is hasten a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, hasten is tagged as verb.
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