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say it: HAY-suhn
hasten is a verb meaning "act or move at high speed". It is pronounced /ˈheɪsən/ — HAY-suhn. It carries 4 recorded senses.
act or move at high speed
“We have to rush!”
“hurry--it's late!”
move hurridly
“He rushed down the hall to receive his guests”
“The cars raced down the street”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for hasten come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.