hastenとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音, 米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈheɪ.sən/
• 韻: -eɪsən

動詞

hasten (三人称単数 現在形 hastens, 現在分詞 hastening, 過去形および過去分詞形 hastened)

1. (intransitive) To move or act in a quick fashion.
2. (transitive) To make someone speed up or make something happen quicker.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Psalms 55:8:

     I would hasten my escape from the windy storm.

   • c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene ii]:

     Hamlet:
     Bid the players make haste.
     Will you two help to hasten them?

3. (transitive) To cause some scheduled event to happen earlier.
   • 1960 February, R. C. Riley, “The London-Birmingham services - Past, Present and Future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 96:

     The decision to hasten completion of the electrification of London Midland Region main lines from Euston to the north and the subsequent diversion of some traffic to the Western Region in order to allow the engineers fuller track occupation, have focused attention on the two main routes between London, Birmingham and Wolverhampton.

   • 2008, Bradley Simpson, Economists with Guns, page 7:

     […] and prescribed policies and packages of military, economic and technical assistance to hasten their inevitable march toward development and modernity.

同意語

• (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

派生語

• hastener

関連する語

• haste

参照

• hasten at OneLook Dictionary Search

アナグラム

• Athens, Nathes, Sneath, snathe, sneath, thanes