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Hasten

To press; to drive or urge forward; to push on; to precipitate; to accelerate the movement of; to expedite; to hurry.

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Broader term 9

Act 76% connected

That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Aid 76% connected

To support, either by furnishing strength or means in cooperation to effect a purpose, or to prevent or to remove evil; to help; to assist.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Assist 76% connected

To give support to in some undertaking or effort, or in time of distress; to help; to aid; to succor.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Effect 76% connected

Execution; performance; realization; operation; as, the law goes into effect in May.

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Effectuate 76% connected

To bring to pass; to effect; to achieve; to accomplish; to fulfill.

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Go 76% connected

Gone.

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Help 76% connected

To furnish with strength or means for the successful performance of any action or the attainment of any object; to aid; to assist; as, to help a man…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Move 76% connected

To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Travel 76% connected

To labor; to travail.

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Manner of action 10

Barge 76% connected

A pleasure boat; a vessel or boat of state, elegantly furnished and decorated.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Buck 76% connected

Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.

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Charge 76% connected

To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill.

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Dart 76% connected

A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand; a short lance; a javelin; hence, any sharp-pointed missile weapon, as an arrow.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Dash 76% connected

To throw with violence or haste; to cause to strike violently or hastily; -- often used with against.

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Flash 76% connected

To burst or break forth with a sudden and transient flood of flame and light; as, the lighting flashes vividly; the powder flashed.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Scoot 76% connected

To walk fast; to go quickly; to run hastily away.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Scud 76% connected

To move swiftly; especially, to move as if driven forward by something.

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Shoot 76% connected

An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, etc., are caused to slide; also, a narrow passage, either natural or artifi…

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Tear 76% connected

A drop of the limpid, saline fluid secreted, normally in small amount, by the lachrymal gland, and diffused between the eye and the eyelids to moiste…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Synonym 10

Expedite 92% connected

Free of impediment; unimpeded.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Festinate 92% connected

Hasty; hurried.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Hie 92% connected

To hasten; to go in haste; -- also often with the reciprocal pronoun.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Hotfoot 92% connected

In haste; foothot.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Hurry 92% connected

To hasten; to impel to greater speed; to urge on.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Induce 92% connected

To lead in; to introduce.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Race 92% connected

To raze.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Rush 92% connected

A name given to many aquatic or marsh-growing endogenous plants with soft, slender stems, as the species of Juncus and Scirpus.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Speed 92% connected

Prosperity in an undertaking; favorable issue; success.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Stimulate 92% connected

To excite as if with a goad; to excite, rouse, or animate, to action or more vigorous exertion by some pungent motive or by persuasion; as, to stimul…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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