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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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streak
English
Etymology
From Middle English streke, from Old English strica, from Proto-Germanic *strikiz, from Proto-Indo-European *streyg- (“line”). Related to North Frisian strijck, Old Saxon striki, Middle Low German streke, Low German streek, Danish streg, Swedish streck, Norwegian Bokmål strek, Icelandic stryk, strykr, Dutch streek, Afrikaans streek, Old High German strih, German Strich, Gothic ???????????????????????? (striks).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /st?i?k/
- Rhymes: -i?k
Noun
streak (plural streaks)
- An irregular line left from smearing or motion.
- A continuous series of like events.
- The color of the powder of a mineral. So called, because a simple field test for a mineral is to streak it against unglazed white porcelain.
- A moth of the family Geometridae, Chesias legatella.
- Streak (moth) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- A tendency or characteristic, but not a dominant or pervasive one.
- (shipbuilding) A strake.
- A rung or round of a ladder.
- The act of streaking, or running naked through a public area
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
streak (third-person singular simple present streaks, present participle streaking, simple past and past participle streaked)
- (intransitive) To have or obtain streaks.
- If you clean a window in direct sunlight, it will streak.
- (intransitive, slang) To run naked in public. (Contrast flash)
- It was a pleasant game until some guy went streaking across the field.
- (transitive) To create streaks.
- You will streak a window by cleaning it in direct sunlight.
- (transitive) To move very swiftly.
- (obsolete, Britain, Scotland) To stretch; to extend; hence, to lay out, as a dead body.
Translations
See also
- losing streak
- streaker
- winning streak
- talk a blue streak
Anagrams
- Akters, Kaster, Krastë, Skater, Staker, Starke, Tasker, retask, sakret, skater, staker, strake, takers, tasker, trakes
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