hastenhas‧ten /ˈheɪsən/ verb formal 
Their departure was hastened by an abnormally cold winter.2[intransitive] to do or say something quickly or without delay SYN hurryhasten to do something I hastened to assure her that there was no danger.3I hasten to add used when you realize that what you have said may not have been understood correctly: an exhausting course, which, I hasten to add, was also great fun4[intransitive always + adverb/preposition] literary to go somewhere quickly
VERB TABLE
hasten
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | hasten |
| he, she, it | hastens | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | hastened |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have hastened |
| he, she, it | has hastened | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had hastened |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will hasten |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have hastened |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am hastening |
| he, she, it | is hastening | |
| you, we, they | are hastening | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was hastening |
| you, we, they | were hastening | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been hastening |
| he, she, it | has been hastening | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been hastening |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be hastening |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been hastening |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- The agency hoped to hasten the approval process for new drugs.
- We hastened toward shelter.
- Change is hastened by the Reform Bill.
- Following his instruction, his party hastened to the windows.
- I hasten to add that she was a business acquaintance, not a friend.
- I have read from cover to cover with great interest, and now hasten to enclose my subscription.
- She hastened back into the corridor and slammed the door.
- The cilia in the respiratory tract hasten the exit from the body of possibly harmful foreign material.
- There a servant hastened to them with water in a golden ewer which she poured over their fingers into a silver bowl.
THESAURUS
to move very quickly, especially because you need to be somewhere soon: · He was rushing out of his office in order to go to a meeting.· There’s no need to rush - we have plenty of time.
to do something or go somewhere more quickly than usual, especially because there is not much time: · People hurried into stores to escape the rain.· You ll have to hurry or we 'll be late for breakfast· I hurried through the rest of my workout and showered as quickly as I could.
to go somewhere as fast as you can: · She raced downstairs to tell her mother.· He raced back to his car and called for help.
to run very quickly and without really looking where you are going, because you are in a hurry: · I saw two boys tearing across the field towards the tree.· He tore down the stairs and out of the house.· They tore out of the building.
to run somewhere very fast, especially only a short distance: · Bob dashed across the road to his friend’s house.· Her heart was pumping furiously as she dashed through the kitchen to the front door.· I dashed outside to try to rescue the unfortunate creature.
American English informal to hurry when you are doing something or going somewhere: · You better hustle or you’re going to miss the school bus.
literary to hurry somewhere, especially because you need to do something: · Suddenly frightened, she hastened back to where her friends were standing.· She took a deep breath and then hastened after him.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES I was refused accommodation – not, I hasten to add, on account of my appearance (=used to explain more about what you have just said).COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB
I was refused accommodation – not, I hasten to add, on account of my appearance (=used to explain more about what you have just said).· She refused a further brandy and hastened back to La Gracieuse.· She hastened back into the corridor and slammed the door.
NOUN· Adding the copper, which is another metal toxin, only hastened the death of the fish.· But, analytically, a right to die is not dissimilar from a right to hasten death by terminating life-sustaining medical treatment.· By law no attempts may be made to hasten death or prolong the life of the sufferer.· The doctor's nostrums were as likely to hasten death as delay it.
· Offering to buy him breakfast out of town is the device I use to hasten the leaving process.· We are hastening this process with the burning of fossil fuels.· But Mr Burke said whilst labour was being induced Mrs Busuttil was given a drug to hasten the process.· George Pataki arranged for extra pathologists to hasten the process.· He does not seem to have thought that improvements in the world would hasten this process.· To hasten the ripening process, put the persimmons in a plastic bag with an apple, then tie the bag shut.· He chose not to hasten the process by buying.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
1[transitive] to make something happen faster or sooner: - I have, I hasten to add, no precise statistics on hand.
- Many of them built up vast fortunes under my father's regime, illegal fortunes, I hasten to add.
- Metaphorically speaking, I hasten to add.
- Not me, I hasten to add.
- Not, I hasten to add, on account of my sweaty demeanour.
- Not, I hasten to add, through fraud but through an error in part of the model.
- This wasn't me, I hasten to add, but the pill, which was based on belladonna.
Their departure was hastened by an abnormally cold winter.2[intransitive] to do or say something quickly or without delay SYN hurryhasten to do something I hastened to assure her that there was no danger.3I hasten to add used when you realize that what you have said may not have been understood correctly: an exhausting course, which, I hasten to add, was also great fun4[intransitive always + adverb/preposition] literary to go somewhere quickly