hastened; hastening
ˈhā-sᵊn-iŋ 
ˈhās-niŋ
: to move or act quickly
She hastened up the stairs.
1
: to encourage to move or act quickly : to urge on
hastened her to the door—
A. J. Cronin
A. J. Cronin2
: to cause to happen more quickly : accelerate
His death was hastened by alcoholism.
hasten the coming of a new order—D. W. Brogan
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Examples of hasten in a Sentence
His death was hastened by alcohol abuse.
hasten the activation of yeast with heat
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Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2025
Farhad Manjoo, writing in the New York Times, predicted the end of net neutrality would hasten the death of the internet.
—Tyler Cowen, Twin Cities, 19 Jan. 2025
The United States withdrew its forces from Europe while demanding debt payments from allies, who passed the costs on to Germany, worsening its financial turmoil and hastening its slide into Nazism.
—Michael Beckley, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
Change will inevitably be slow but it can surely be hastened by the government and wider society acknowledging the unique and powerful role DPOs should be allowed to play and to begin clearing a space for this to grow.
Follow me on LinkedIn.
—Gus Alexiou, Forbes, 22 Dec. 2024
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“Hasten.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hasten. Accessed 27 Jan. 2025.
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