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make haste en · VERB

Meanings

1. (dated, intransitive) To hurry or hasten.
   • “The second will be to promise me upon pain of death that you will permit no word of this affair to get into the newspapers. If you do not do both, neither of you will be alive when I pass next through that doorway. Do you understand?” And, without waiting for a reply: “Make haste; there is ink before you, and paper and a pen.” 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 47:
   • Bid the players make haste. Will you two help to hasten them? c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
   • Since I have your good leave to go away, I will make haste: but, till I come again, No bed shall e'er be guilty of my stay, Nor rest be interposer 'twixt us twain. c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:

Forms

Deriveds

make haste slowly

Translations (11)

ja 急ぐ (to rush) · fr faire diligence (to rush) · es darse prisa (to rush) · es hacerse priesa (to rush) · la festīnō (to rush) · it sbrigarsi (to rush) · fi kiiruhtaa (to rush) · it affrettarsi (to rush) · mi āhiki (to rush) · izh kiirehtiä (to rush) · bg бързам (to rush)