hastening 1 of 2

noun

Definition of hasteningnext
as in acceleration

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hastening

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verb

present participle of hasten
1
as in accelerating
to cause to move or proceed fast or faster hasten the activation of yeast with heat

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2
as in hurrying
to proceed or move quickly the contractors hastened to complete the project before the deadline

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hastening
  1. acceleration
  2. accelerating
  3. pushing
  4. driving
  5. zipping
  6. jumping
Noun
  • The company continues to focus on its brand acceleration platform and the acquisition, optimization, and monetization of consumer brands.
    Quartz Bot, Quartz, 14 Nov. 2024
  • Be aware that even with graphics hardware acceleration, some of these effects took up to a half minute to complete on my test PC.
    PCMAG, PCMAG, 12 Nov. 2024
Definition of acceleration
Verb
  • The technology is also transforming medical imaging and has been helpful in accelerating the drug discovery process.
    Nir Eisikovits, Discover Magazine, 14 Nov. 2024
  • The problem isn’t just that funds are being deployed in support of destructive practices, but that harmful finance is accelerating.
    Felicia Jackson, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
Definition of accelerating
Verb
  • Donnelly said the winds changed overnight, pushing the blaze back over the border to New Jersey.
    Mirna Alsharif, NBC News, 10 Nov. 2024
  • The actress and former Disney Channel star merges edgy contemporary designs while still pushing boundaries with accessories and various elements beyond her sartorial statements.
    Julia Teti, WWD, 21 Oct. 2024
Definition of pushing
Verb
  • The driving rats project has opened new and unexpected doors in my behavioral neuroscience research lab.
    Kelly Lambert, Discover Magazine, 14 Nov. 2024
  • Modern cars have almost unilaterally replaced dashboards full of tactile knobs with sleek, iPad-like digital displays, despite concerns these alluring devices might be making distracted driving worse.
    Mack DeGeurin, Popular Science, 13 Nov. 2024
Definition of driving
Verb
  • Most novelists freely pump the gas and the brakes, zipping through the boring bits to get to the good ones, but his pacing is remorselessly steady, the metronome locked at 60, one second per second.
    Lev Grossman, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Quanta Magazine caught up with him a couple of times this year over Zoom to hear why space-time might be fundamental after all, and what the symmetries of the particles zipping around in it might suggest.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024
Definition of zipping
Verb
  • Nighttime experiences are spookier, with darker lighting and characters in scary masks jumping out to startle visitors.
    Domenica Bongiovanni, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Oct. 2024
  • The jumping-for-beef gag is meme magic in itself — and has helped the Parkour Civilization phenomenon blow up on X (formerly Twitter) in recent days.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 4 Oct. 2024
Definition of jumping
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