hasten

verb

1. (intransitive)To move or act in a quick fashion.
2. (transitive)To make someone speed up or make something happen quicker.

   “I would hasten my escape from the windy storm.”

   “Hamlet: Bid the players make haste. Will you two help to hasten them?”

   “A dearth of signalmen and the high cost of labour is hastening an elimination process that already was well under way before the second world war.”

3. (transitive)To cause some scheduled event to happen earlier.

   “The decision to hasten completion of the electrification of London Midland Region main lines from Euston to the north and the subsequent diversion of some traffic to the Western Region in order to allow the engineers fuller track occupation, have focused attention on the two main routes between London, Birmingham and Wolverhampton.”

   “[…]and prescribed policies and packages of military, economic and technical assistance to hasten their inevitable march toward development and modernity.”

name

1. A surname from Dutch.