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- verb Present participle of
hasten . - noun The act of speeding up; a growing faster.
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Examples
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Although its avowed purpose was to bring together the feuding revolutionary factions, it only succeeded in hastening the final split.
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Although its avowed purpose was to bring together the feuding revolutionary factions, it only succeeded in hastening the final split.
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Although its avowed purpose was to bring together the feuding revolutionary factions, it only succeeded in hastening the final split.
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Although its avowed purpose was to bring together the feuding revolutionary factions, it only succeeded in hastening the final split.
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The Earth is indisputably getting warmer overall, and human activity is definitely playing a part in hastening that warming trend.
Think Progress » Ask Obama and Daschle about global warming. 2006
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The emergent right to receive medical assistance in hastening one's death [is an] inevitable consequence of changes in the causes of death, advances in medical science, and the development of new technologies.
Whose Right to Die? 1997
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The emergent right to receive medical assistance in hastening one's death [is an] inevitable consequence of changes in the causes of death, advances in medical science, and the development of new technologies.
Whose Right to Die? 1997
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The emergent right to receive medical assistance in hastening one's death [is an] inevitable consequence of changes in the causes of death, advances in medical science, and the development of new technologies.
Whose Right to Die? 1997
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It was the Prince, hastening from the palace with an expression half of anger half of sorrowful reproach on his face.
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These terrible warnings were sure to have the desired effect; for, with their eyes open wider than ever, they were not long in hastening their steps.
At Gettysburg, or, What a Girl Saw and Heard of the Battle: A True Narrative 1889
Prolagus commented on the word hastening
Summer's hastening on, trying to get a feeling from the city
But I've been unfaithful, I've been traveling abroad
We've got a fantasy affair, we didn't get wet, we didn't dare
But the fantasy remains, you better come back to love again
Our aspirations, wrapped up in books
Our inclinations, hidden in looks
.(Wrapped up in books, by Belle And Sebastian)
June 9, 2008
yarb commented on the word hastening
I walk to work along Hastings Street, which I always think of as Hastenings Street.
June 9, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word hastening
ha!
June 10, 2008
bilby commented on the word hastening
So you're never late for work, yarb?
June 10, 2008
yarb commented on the word hastening
I'm sorry to say I often am, bilby. More speed, less haste(ning), as the adage has it.
June 10, 2008