DIMENSIONS: DENOTATION / Quality
Music: Pressing . . . . accerlerating the time.
R E F E R E N C E S
Hasten v.i. 1. to move or act with haste; proceed with haste; hurry: to hasten to a place. v.t. 2. to cause to hasten; accelerate.
-Syn. 2. expedite, quicken, speed.
Haste 1. swiftness of motions; speed. 2. urgent need of quick action; a hurry. 3. unnecessarily quick action; thoughtless, rash, or undue speed: Haste makes waste. 4. make haste, to act or go with speed; hurry. -v.t., v.i. 5. chiefly Literary. to hasten [ME < OF < Ofris hãst; akin to OE hæst violence, ON heifst hatred, Goth haifsts struggle] -Syn. 1. See speed. 2. flurry, bustle, ado, urgency. 3. precipitancy. [Urdang, Laurence, ed. Random House Dictionary of The English Language. New York: Random House, 1968.]
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