Tra từ hasten - Từ điển LongMan Dictionary

has‧ten/ˈheɪsən/ verb formal
1. [TRANSITIVE]
to make something happen faster or sooner:
　 ▪ Their departure was hastened by an abnormally cold winter.

2. [INTRANSITIVE]
to do or say something quickly or without delay SYN hurry
hasten to do something
　 ▪ I hastened to assure her that there was no danger.

3. I 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 fun

4. [INTRANSITIVE ALWAYS + ADVERB/PREPOSITION]
literary to go somewhere quickly
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THESAURUS
▪rush 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.
▪hurry 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.
▪race 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.
▪tear 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.
▪dash 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.
▪hustle 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.
▪hasten 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.

verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
I hasten to add (=used to explain more about what you have just said)
▪ I was refused accommodation – not, I hasten to add, on account of my appearance .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
ADVERB
back
▪ She refused a further brandy and hastened back to La Gracieuse.
▪ She hastened back into the corridor and slammed the door.
NOUN
death
▪ 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.
process
▪ 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.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The agency hoped to hasten the approval process for new drugs.
▪ We hastened toward shelter.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ 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.