verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
I hasten to add (= used to explain more about what you have just said )
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I was refused accommodation – not, I hasten to add , on account of my appearance .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
back
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She refused a further brandy and hastened back to La Gracieuse.
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She hastened back into the corridor and slammed the door.
■ NOUN
death
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Adding the copper, which is another metal toxin, only hastened the death of the fish.
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But, analytically, a right to die is not dissimilar from a right to hasten death by terminating life-sustaining medical treatment.
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By law no attempts may be made to hasten death or prolong the life of the sufferer.
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The doctor's nostrums were as likely to hasten death as delay it.
process
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Offering to buy him breakfast out of town is the device I use to hasten the leaving process .
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We are hastening this process with the burning of fossil fuels.
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But Mr Burke said whilst labour was being induced Mrs Busuttil was given a drug to hasten the process .
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George Pataki arranged for extra pathologists to hasten the process .
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He does not seem to have thought that improvements in the world would hasten this process .
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To hasten the ripening process , put the persimmons in a plastic bag with an apple, then tie the bag shut.
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He chose not to hasten the process by buying.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The agency hoped to hasten the approval process for new drugs.
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We hastened toward shelter.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Change is hastened by the Reform Bill.
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Following his instruction, his party hastened to the windows.
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I hasten to add that she was a business acquaintance, not a friend.
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I have read from cover to cover with great interest, and now hasten to enclose my subscription.
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She hastened back into the corridor and slammed the door.
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The cilia in the respiratory tract hasten the exit from the body of possibly harmful foreign material.
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There a servant hastened to them with water in a golden ewer which she poured over their fingers into a silver bowl.