Hasten: Definition and part of speech

Hasten

  1. v. i. To move celerity; to be rapid in motion; to act speedily or quickly; to go quickly.
  2. v. t. To press; to drive or urge forward; to push on; to precipitate; to accelerate the movement of; to expedite; to hurry.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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