different between trudge vs hasten

English

Etymology

Mid-16th century. Original meaning was somewhat idiomatic, meaning "to walk using snowshoes." Probably of Scandinavian origin, compare Icelandic þr?ga (“snowshoe”), Norwegian truga (“snowshoe”) and dialectal Swedish trudja (“snowshoe”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA^(key): /t??d?/
• Rhymes: -?d?

Noun

trudge (plural trudges)

1. A tramp, i.e. a long and tiring walk.

Translations

Verb

trudge (third-person singular simple present trudges, present participle trudging, simple past and past participle trudged)

1. (intransitive) To walk wearily with heavy, slow steps.
   • 2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)[1]

     This famous archaeological site marks the farthest limit of human migration out of Africa in the middle Stone Age—the outer edge of our knowledge of the cosmos. I trudge to the caves in a squall.

2. (transitive) To trudge along or over a route etc.

Derived terms

• trudger

Translations

References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
• “trudge”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

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)

1. (intransitive) To move or act in a quick fashion.
2. (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?

3. (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

1. Present participle of hasi.

Danish

Noun

hasten c

1. definite singular of hast

Finnish

Alternative forms

• hapsien

Noun

hasten

1. 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)

1. 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

1. definite singular of hast