Usually means: Accelerating the process or speed.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. hastening: Merriam-Webster
  2. hastening: Collins English Dictionary
  3. hastening: Vocabulary.com
  4. Hastening, hastening: Wordnik
  5. hastening: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. hastening: Wiktionary
  7. Hastening, hastening: Dictionary.com
  8. hastening: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Hastening: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. hastening: Rhymezone
  11. Hastening: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. hastening: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. hastening: FreeDictionary.org
  14. hastening: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hastening: Legal dictionary

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▸ noun:  The act of speeding up; a growing faster.

Similar:
hurrying, speeding, fast, haste, accelerando, post-haste, rushing, heightening, precipitancy, increment, more...

Opposite:
delaying, slowing, procrastinating

Types:
acceleration, speeding up, quickening, expediting, more...

Adjectives:
daily, constant, current, undue, little, dead, mystic, consequent, possible, death, strong

Colors:
    scarlet,     crimson,     vermilion,     ruby,     firebrick, more...

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Similar:
hurrying, speeding, fast, haste, accelerando, post-haste, rushing, heightening, precipitancy, increment, more...

Opposite:
delaying, slowing, procrastinating

Types:
acceleration, speeding up, quickening, expediting, more...

Adjectives:
daily, constant, current, undue, little, dead, mystic, consequent, possible, death, strong

Colors:
    scarlet,     crimson,     vermilion,     ruby,     firebrick, more...



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