0 present participle of hasten
1 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.
The president hastened to reassure his people that he was in perfect health.
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.
Based on these findings, concern about hastening death does not justify withholding opioid therapy.
What the cut does is to remove a repetition of the seven lines, and this has the effect of hastening the arrival at the climax.
Here the seriousness of the illness has little effect on hastening the operation.
They see this not simply as a long-term objective but one to be targeted immediately with the regulators charged with actively hastening their own demise.
We could stipulate that any sort of change, hastening, or delay, however small, will turn one event into another.
Subsequent legislation varied the conditions, but the essential requirement of fencing remained, thus hastening the spread of fences, and the end of shepherding.
Hundreds of other carriages, crowded with their thousands of men, were hastening to the great city.
Since the regeneration is largely controlled by man, is it possible to derive better strategies to shorten the non-productive phase by hastening the growth of the juveniles?
