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Hastens vs Hastes - What's the difference?

hastens | hastes |

As a noun hastens

is .

As a verb hastes is

(haste).

hastens

English

Verb

(head)
  • (hasten)

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    hasten

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To move in a quick fashion.
  • To make someone speed up or make something happen quicker.
  • * Bible, Psalms lv. 8
    • I would hasten my escape from the windy storm.
  • * 2008 , Bradley Simpson, Economists with Guns , page 7:
    • [...] and prescribed policies and packages of military, economic and technical assistance to hasten their inevitable march toward development and modernity.
  • To cause some scheduled event to happen earlier.

    • Synonyms

    * rush * hurry * See also * (speed up) accelerate

    Derived terms

    * hastener

    Related terms

    * haste

    Anagrams

    * * * English ergative verbs ----

    hastes

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (haste)

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    haste

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • Speed; swiftness; dispatch.
    • We were running late so we finished our meal in haste .
  • * Bible, 1 Sam. xxi. 8
    • The king's business required haste .
  • (obsolete) Hurry; urgency; sudden excitement of feeling or passion; precipitance; vehemence.
  • * Bible, Psalms cxvi. 11
    • I said in my haste , All men are liars.

    Derived terms

    * hasten verb * hastily adverb * hastiness noun * hasty adjective * make haste * posthaste, post haste adverb

    Related terms

    * hurry * rush * scramble * scamper * scurry

    Verb

    (hast)
  • To urge onward; to hasten
  • To move with haste.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1594, author=, title=A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. VII (4th edition), chapter=The Wounds of Civill War, edition= citation
    • , passage=The city is amaz'd, for Sylla hastes To enter Rome with fury, sword and fire. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1825, author=Samuel Johnson, title=The Works of Samuel Johnson in Nine Volumes, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=He hastes away to another, whom his affairs have called to a distant place, and, having seen the empty house, goes away disgusted by a disappointment which could not be intended, because it could not be foreseen. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1881, author=Thomas Carlyle, title=Past and Present, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Samson hastes not; but neither does he pause to rest. }}

    References

    Anagrams

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