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What does hasten mean?

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Verb
  1. To move in a quick fashion.
  2. To make someone speed up or make something happen quicker.
  3. To cause some scheduled event to happen earlier.
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Finally, salbutamol pretreatment might hasten lidocaine absorption and increase peak lidocaine plasma concentrations toward the toxic threshold.
Projected fuel cost increases and savings from water conservation will probably hasten the break-even point.
Although herbivory tends to hasten succession from shrubs and pioneer trees to forest, it typically retards succession from earlier seres.
This is not, we hasten to say, because the film is deliberately cold and self-referential in a postmodern fashion.
They noted that many people believe that to talk about death or engage in advance care planning might hasten one's death.
Creams or ointments containing aloe vera or propolis have been found to help reduce the discomfort of cold sores and hasten their healing.

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