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has⋅ten

   [hey-suhn]
–verb (used without object)
1. to move or act with haste; proceed with haste; hurry: to hasten to a place.
–verb (used with object)
2. to cause to hasten; accelerate: to hasten someone from a room; to hasten the arrival of a happier time.
Origin:
1565–75; haste + -en 1
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Hastener

Has"ten*er\, n. 1. One who hastens.

2. That which hastens; especially, a stand or reflector used for confining the heat of the fire to meat while roasting before it.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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