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haste

noun

working with feverish haste:

speed, hastiness, hurry, hurriedness, swiftness, rapidity, rapidness, quickness, promptness, briskness, immediateness;

impetuosity, precipitateness, rush, rushing;

literary celerity, fleetness;

rare expedition, expeditiousness, promptitude.

▷antonyms slowness, delay.

□ in haste

quickly, rapidly, fast, speedily, with alacrity, with urgency, in a rush, in a hurry, with dispatch.

□ make haste

I made haste down the stairs:

hurry, go fast, go quickly, hasten, hurtle, dash, dart, race, rush, fly, flash, shoot, streak, bolt, bound, blast, charge, chase, career, hurry up, speed up, scurry, scramble, scamper, scuttle, sprint, run, gallop, go like lightning, go hell for leather;

British scutter;

informal whizz, whoosh, vroom, tear, scoot, hare, pelt, zip, whip, zoom, belt, beetle, buzz, get a move on, step on it, hotfoot it, burn rubber, go like a bat out of hell;

British, informal bomb, bucket, shift, put one's foot down, go like the clappers, leg it;

Scottish, informal wheech;

North American, informal hightail, barrel, boogie, clip, lay rubber, get the lead out;

North American, vulgar slang drag/tear/haul ass;

informal , dated cut along;

archaic post, hie, fleet.

▷antonyms dawdle; crawl.

haste Oxford Dictionary of English