noun
Agent noun of hasten; one who hastens.||A stand or reflector used for confining the heat of the fire to meat while roasting before it.
verb
1.Be quick to do something.
‘he hastened to refute the assertion’
‘But, the lawyer hastened to add, ‘This is not intended to be any kind of specific statement.’’
2.Cause (something, especially something undesirable) to happen sooner than it otherwise would.
‘this tragedy probably hastened his own death from heart disease’
‘As Angus Calder has suggested, ‘the effect of the war was not to sweep society on to a new course, but to hasten its progress along the old grooves.’’
3.Move or travel hurriedly.
‘we hastened back to Paris’
‘The girl in question had hastened from her seat next to Allyson and was moving rather quickly in the direction of the elevators.’
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verb
‘he hastened to refute the assertion’
