0 past simple and past 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.
The bridges it had tried to build were broken at both ends, and the confessional historians of both sides hastened to erase its memory.
This led to the development of vertically integrated production systems, particularly of animals10, and hastened the development of technologies supporting confinement animal production.
However, the studies also indicated that this is not always the case, and that some individuals persist in their desire for hastened death.
They warn that youth employment is par t of a syndrome of "precocious development," precipitating a hastened transition to adulthood.
Agri-industry has underpinned the rapid development of shrimp farming from the supply of inputs to connections with global markets and hastened its spread between countries.
What this hastened description seeks to suggest is that the globalization of design is the result of a clear economic logic.
One could say that they hastened to 'fix' the 'mistake' made by the planners of leaving the bathroom outside the house.
Nevertheless, we recommend that delivery be hastened should fetal heart failure worsen despite satisfactory medical management.
