different between hasten vs slouch
hasten
English
Etymology
Originally intransitive, from haste +? -en (verbal suffix).
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /?he?.s?n/
- Rhymes: -e?s?n
Verb
hasten (third-person singular simple present hastens, present participle hastening, simple past and past participle hastened)
- (intransitive) To move or act in a quick fashion.
- (transitive) To make someone speed up or make something happen quicker.
- I would hasten my escape from the windy storm.
- c. 1599-1601, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act III scene ii[1]:
- Hamlet:
- Bid the players make haste.
- Will you two help to hasten them?
- (transitive) To cause some scheduled event to happen earlier.
Synonyms
- (move in a quick fashion): dart, race; see also Thesaurus:move quickly
- (speed up): accelerate, quicken, speed up; see also Thesaurus:speed up
- (cause a scheduled event to happen earlier): hurry, rush, zoom; see also Thesaurus:rush
Derived terms
- hastener
Related terms
- haste
Translations
Anagrams
- Athens, snathe, sneath, thanes
Basque
Pronunciation
- (standard) IPA(key): /(?)as?.ten/
Verb
hasten
- Present participle of hasi.
Danish
Noun
hasten c
- definite singular of hast
Finnish
Alternative forms
- hapsien
Noun
hasten
- Genitive plural form of hapsi.
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?hastn?]
- Hyphenation: has?ten
- Homophone: hassten
Verb
hasten (weak, third-person singular present hastet, past tense hastete, past participle gehastet, auxiliary sein)
- to hurry, to rush
Conjugation
Synonyms
- eilen
- rennen
- stürmen
Antonyms
- trödeln
- trotten
Derived terms
- hastend
- hastig
- herbeihasten
- forthasten
See also
- beschleunigen
- herbeieilen
- vorauseilen
- forteilen
- laufen
Further reading
- “hasten” in Duden online
Swedish
Noun
hasten
- definite singular of hast
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- what hastened the end of the korean war
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- what hastens the solubility of a substance
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slouch
English
Etymology
From Middle English slugge, from Old Norse slókr (“a slouching, lazy fellow”), cognate to Swedish sloka (“to wilt, slouch”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sla?t??/
- Rhymes: -a?t?
Noun
slouch (plural slouches)
- A hanging down of the head; a drooping posture; a limp appearance
- He sat with an unenthusiastic slouch.
- Any depression or hanging down, as of a hat brim.
- The plant hung in a permanent slouch.
- Someone who is slow to act.
- 2014, Ian Jack, "Is this the end of Britishness", The Guardian, 16 September 2014:
- In any case, Scotland has been no slouch at national invention. The Greek temple to commemorate James Thomson wasn’t the only monument raised by the 11th Earl of Buchan, who was a friend and neighbour of Walter Scott, and as great a romancer in his obsession with ruins, battlements and fancy dress.
- 2014, Ian Jack, "Is this the end of Britishness", The Guardian, 16 September 2014:
- (dated) An awkward, heavy, clownish fellow.
Derived terms
- slouch hat
Translations
Verb
slouch (third-person singular simple present slouches, present participle slouching, simple past and past participle slouched)
- (intransitive) To hang or droop; to adopt a limp posture
- Do not slouch when playing a flute.
- (intransitive) To walk in a clumsy, lazy manner.
- I slouched to the fridge to see if there was anything to eat.
- (transitive) To cause to hang down or droop; to depress.
- 1896, Duncan Campbell Scott, In the Village of Viger (page 107)
- […] then he slouched his head down on the table and pretended to sleep.
- 2012, Kim Vogel Sawyer, When Hope Blossoms (page 281)
- Disappointment slouched him into the pew.
- 1896, Duncan Campbell Scott, In the Village of Viger (page 107)
References
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- what sloucher meaning
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