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What is the verb for hastily?

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hasten
  1. To move in a quick fashion.
  2. To make someone speed up or make something happen quicker.
  3. To cause some scheduled event to happen earlier.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “It is best to hasten along this damnable road if one must, and to turn off it as soon as one may.”
      “We can conceive of no legislation which would hasten the completion of the road.”
      “Horsemen mount, to hasten their dawn-lit stock through a wood of russet and silver.”
haste
  1. (transitive, archaic) To urge onward; to hasten.
  2. (intransitive, archaic) To move with haste.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “And upon a night, there came a vision to Sir Launcelot, and charged him to haste toward Almesbury.”
hastening
hastens
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hasten
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Matt did own a dress coat, Mary hastens to add, but he hadn't gotten together the money to buy the slacks.”
      “Moreover, as the Arctic warms, the length of the melt period increases, which in turn thins the ice and further hastens its retreat.”
      “Alcohol use markedly elevates the blood glucose level and hastens the development of diabetic neuropathy.”
hastes
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of haste
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The city is amaz'd, for Sylla hastes To enter Rome with fury, sword and fire.”
hasteth
  1. (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of haste
  2. Examples:
    1. “Also, that the soul be without knowledge, it is not good, and he that hasteth with his feet sinneth.”
      “But he, who joineth with lawless men, a faithful man hath abundance of blessings, but he, who hasteth to be rich, will not be held guiltless.”
      “He that hasteth to be rich hath an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him.”
hastenest
  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of hasten
hasteneth
  1. (archaic) Third-person singular present simple form of hasten
  2. Examples:
    1. “Truely he flies when he is even upon the nicke, and naturally hasteneth to escape it, as from a step whereon he cannot stay or containe himselfe, and feareth to sinke into it.”
hastest
  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of haste
hastened
  1. simple past tense and past participle of hasten
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  3. Examples:
    1. “When Zulaykha tried to captivate Joseph by her ravishing beauty, the Almighty hastened to help him.”
      “Whatever the historical antecedents, there is no doubt that the invention of the internet and email has hastened the end of truth.”
      “The skulls may have hastened the war by convincing both the English and the Wampanoags that each broke promises neither made.”
hasted
  1. simple past tense and past participle of haste
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Protestants, wherever they could obtain shipping, hasted to fly the country.”
      “At the sound the grooms, who were here and there in the press, hasted to find and caparison the horses of their lords.”
      “And it came to pass, when the Philistine arose, and came and drew nigh to meet David, that David hasted, and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine.”
hasting
  1. present participle of haste
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Under their leader hasting or Hastein, they seized and occupied the city of Chester.”
      “Have I not cause to think that the hour is hasting but too fast when the veil must be rent for me?”
      “See, see, the enamour'd sun is hasting on apace to his expecting mistress, while thou dull Night art slowly lingering yet.”
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