Antonyms for hasting
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : heyst |
| Phonetic Transcription : heɪst |
Definition of hasting
Origin :- late 13c., from Old French haster (Modern French hâter), from haste (see haste). Now largely superseded by hasten (1560s).
- As in race : verb run, speed in competition
- As in rush : verb hurry, speed
- As in hie : verb hasten
- As in festinate : verb rush
- As in dash : verb run very fast for short distance
- As in hasten : verb speed something; hurry
- As in hurry : verb act, move speedily
- As in hustle : verb hurry; work hurriedly
- Achates, hasting on his message, bent his way towards the ships.
- Extract from : « The Aeneid of Virgil » by Virgil
- "Yes, we get our milk at Mr. Hasting's place," answered the switchman.
- Extract from : « Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Sunny South » by Laura Lee Hope
- Hasting to the apartment of her friend, she knocked, and was bidden enter.
- Extract from : « Blue Lights » by R.M. Ballantyne
- Under their leader Hasting or Hastein, they seized and occupied the city of Chester.
- Extract from : « Cheshire » by Charles E. Kelsey
- Poppa, pleaded Nero, hasting to intercept her flight, forgive me.
- Extract from : « Darkness and Dawn » by Frederic W. Farrar
- Your time is hasting to an end, and endless blessedness must succeed it.
- Extract from : « A Christian Directory (Part 2 of 4) » by Richard Baxter
- Fool-fellow, I am hasting to your foes; as fast as foot can carry me, go I thither.
- Extract from : « The Black Arrow » by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Time passes with tranquil steps, for her not hasting unduly. '
- Extract from : « A Book of Sibyls » by Anne Thackeray (Mrs. Richmond Ritchie)
- Have I not cause to think that the hour is hasting but too fast when the veil must be rent for me?
- Extract from : « Shirley » by Charlotte Bront
- Looking for, and hasting unto, the coming of the day of God.
- Extract from : « Notes on the Book of Genesis » by Charles Henry Mackintosh
Synonyms for hasting
- accelerate
- advance
- apply oneself
- barrel
- be conscientious
- be quick
- beeline
- bestir
- boil
- bolt
- bound
- break
- breeze
- bulldoze
- bullet
- burn
- burst
- bustle
- career
- charge
- chase
- clip
- compete
- contest
- course
- cover ground
- dart
- dash
- dig in
- dispatch
- drive
- elbow
- expedite
- express
- fire up
- flash
- flee
- fleet
- fling
- flit
- fly
- force
- gallop
- get a move on
- get cracking
- get on it
- get the lead out
- go like lightning
- go like the wind
- goad
- haste
- hasten
- hie
- hotfoot
- hurry
- hurry up
- hustle
- impel
- jog
- lash
- leap
- lose no time
- make a run for it
- make haste
- make it snappy
- make short work of
- make time
- make tracks
- move quickly
- nip
- not lose a minute
- outstrip
- pace
- plunge
- plunge ahead
- post
- precipitate
- press
- pursue
- push
- quicken
- race
- rip
- rocket
- roll
- run
- run like the wind
- rush
- rush at
- sail
- sally
- scamper
- scoot
- scramble
- scud
- scurry
- scuttle
- shake a leg
- shoot
- shove
- skim
- skip
- smoke
- speed
- speed up
- spring
- sprint
- spur
- spurt
- step on gas
- step on it
- step up
- streak
- surge
- swoop
- take wing
- tear
- thrust
- trot
- turn on steam
- urge
- use elbow grease
- waste no time
- whip around
- whirl
- whish
- whisk
- whiz
- wing
- zip
- zoom
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