(v. t.) To press; to drive or urge forward; to push on; to precipitate; to accelerate the movement of; to expedite; to hurry.
(v. i.) To move celerity; to be rapid in motion; to act speedily or quickly; to go quickly.
Example Sentences:
(1) Increasing the pH of local anesthetics with sodium bicarbonate has been reported to hasten their onset of action.
(2) Rapid, on-site detection of chlamydial antigen in male FVU would shorten the infectious period by hastening diagnosis and treatment.
(3) The decomposition of nafcillin and penicillin G solutions was hastened significantly by magnesium sulphate due to effect on the pH values of the solutions.
(4) Tetrodotoxin (1.6 x 10(-6) M) delayed the onset, whereas monensin (10(-5) M) hastened it.
(5) Doctors fear being sued if morphine given to relieve terminally ill patients' pain hastens their death.
(6) Even if injected at 15 days 8 hrs, exogenous androgens do not hasten or anticipate the formation of Wolfian derivatives (epididymides and seminal vesicles) in males or in females.
(7) Analysis of the temperature effect on FeCN-supported O2 evolution by spheroplasts suggests that catechol shifts the temperature maxima to a lower temperature and thereby hastens the decay of O2 evolution capacity by heat as compared to the normal spheroplasts.
(8) It is possible, however, that neither drug can alter the natural course of this disease and may just hasten its expected inconsequential resolution.
(9) Tell us what you will do to hasten it, and what you need from government to do it faster.
(10) BP management says it supports the resolution but ultimately believes that politicians must take primary responsibility for tackling global warming and hastening in a low-carbon future.
(11) Peripheral blood stem cells (PBSC) reinfusion appears to hasten hematologic reconstitution following myeloablative therapy.
(12) However, when compared with posterior instrumentation alone, it does help ensure canal reduction and alignment, which may aid recovery and hasten rehabilitation.
(13) When step-ramp stimuli were presented in the normal field, the monkeys delayed the initiation of saccades to targets moving towards the central fixation point, and hastened the initiation of saccades to targets moving away from the central fixation point.
(14) Light was found to exert a greater influence than heat, and yeasts growth hastened colour degradation.
(15) The use of synthetic cuffs to simplify and hasten microvascular anastomoses is offered as an alternative to conventional methods.
(16) But there are steps we can take to save lives, hasten an end to the war, reduce the risks to the region and protect American interests as well.
(17) In the end, it was probably Thatcher's dependence on him which hastened Whitelaw's death.
(18) We would hasten to add that the other initiatives announced last week in the 2016-17 plan will remain.
(19) Finally increasing the general awareness of this problem should hasten the development of improved management strategies.
(20) In anaerobic cells, the I-D decline is hastened almost equally by absorption of either 705 or 650 nm background light.
Hurry
Definition:
(v. t.) To hasten; to impel to greater speed; to urge on.
(v. t.) To impel to precipitate or thoughtless action; to urge to confused or irregular activity.
(v. t.) To cause to be done quickly.
(v. i.) To move or act with haste; to proceed with celerity or precipitation; as, let us hurry.
(n.) The act of hurrying in motion or business; pressure; urgency; bustle; confusion.
Example Sentences:
(1) And while teaching unions wanted him to slow down, they totally missed the point – all the hurry and the change and the disruption were intentional.
(2) Sometimes the person who is going to die will appear to be angry and quite bossy, and tell me to hurry up, but I know it is not how they are feeling inside," she says.
(3) Kevin Rudd's election campaign in 2007 was dubbed "hurry up and wait" by some wags.
(4) Cardiff City waited 51 years for this day but it turned out to be one they would rather forget in a hurry.
(5) Home is his other haven, but so hurried was his departure, he did not have time to bring anything with him.
(6) Inflation rises, but we should still fear deflation Read more Sharply lower oil prices are set to keep a lid on inflation, leaving the UK central bank in no hurry to raise rates above 0.5% , where they have remained for nearly seven years.
(7) The French said they were in no hurry to reach a deal, indicating that the summit could collapse in failure over the next 48 hours.
(8) It reminded me to look at the sky, absorb the air, and listen to the wind that bristles as it hurries by.
(9) But, in a hurry as ever, his eye had wandered beyond the Arno to an altogether different place: the headquarters of the PD.
(10) And still an estimated 42,000-50,000 refugees across Germany are being housed in the tent cities that were erected hurriedly over the summer and autumn.
(11) Why would any loving parent be in a hurry to rob their child of such potent relief?
(12) Spicer, who so viciously attacked the press on Saturday, had to hurriedly walk back the comments of his boss when Trump, during an interview with the Washington Post before the inauguration, promised “insurance for everybody”.
(13) The brief said: "It is unsatisfactory that personal and constitutional questions of such high importance should still depend on the operation of an 18th-century statute which was admittedly passed hurriedly, and in the face of considerable opposition, to deal with an ad hoc situation created largely by the unsatisfactory conduct of King George III's brothers."
(14) Racism has been normalised in Sweden, it’s become okay to say the N-word,” she says, recounting how a man on the subway used the racial slur while shouting and telling her to hurry up.
(15) The US Congress has made attempts, passing several stimulus measures, but almost all were hurried and ill thought-out.
(16) He stumps at the dump on Sundays, Woodmansee explained – not on Saturdays or Wednesdays – because “they have a cup of coffee in their car, they’re not in a hurry and willing to talk about Trump”.
(17) "The problem won't be solved unless you let them hurry up and die."
(18) I seesaw-grunted out of bed at 8.30am and had a bird bath, soaping mainly the naughty bits, for I was in a hurry that Wednesday: it was the day I filed my Observer TV review.
(19) Crunching their way gingerly along pavements scattered with de-icing salt, they hurried from shop to shop – young mothers wheeling pushchairs, older women leaning heavily on shopping trolleys, men trudging alongside their partners, laden with carrier bags.
(20) The Nobel prize has a cachet that will not be surpassed in a hurry.