To move or act in a quick fashion.
To make someone speed up or make something happen quicker.
I would hasten my escape from the windy storm.
To cause some scheduled event to happen earlier.
The decision to hasten completion of the electrification of London Midland Region main lines from Euston to the north and the subsequent diversion of some traffic to the Western Region in order to allow the engineers fuller track occupation, have focused attention on the two main routes between London, Birmingham and Wolverhampton.
A surname from Dutch.
Originally intransitive, from haste + -en (verbal suffix).
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