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hasten

verb

1 we hastened back to Paris:

hurry, go fast, go quickly, make haste, 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.

2 stress chemicals can hasten ageing:

speed up, make faster, accelerate, quicken, precipitate, expedite, advance, hurry on, step up, push forward, urge on, spur on;

facilitate, aid, assist, help, boost;

informal crank up, gee up.

▷antonyms delay; slow down.

hasten Oxford Dictionary of English