The difference between Hasten and Quicken
When used as verbs, hasten means to move or act in a quick fashion, whereas quicken means to give life to.
Quicken is also noun with the meaning: the european rowan, sorbus aucuparia.
check bellow for the other definitions of Hasten and Quicken
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Hasten as a verb (intransitive):
To move or act in a quick fashion.
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Hasten as a verb (transitive):
To make someone speed up or make something happen quicker.
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Hasten as a verb (transitive):
To cause some scheduled event to happen earlier.
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Quicken as a verb (transitive, now, _, literary):
To give life to; to animate, make alive, revive.
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Quicken as a verb (intransitive, now, _, literary):
To come back to life, receive life.
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Quicken as a verb (intransitive):
To take on a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to be roused, excited.
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Quicken as a verb (intransitive):
Of a pregnant woman: to first feel the movements of the foetus, or reach the stage of pregnancy at which this takes place; of a foetus: to begin to move.
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Quicken as a verb (transitive):
To make quicker; to hasten, speed up.
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Quicken as a verb (intransitive):
To become faster.
Examples:
"My heartbeat quickened when I heard him approach."
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Quicken as a verb (shipbuilding):
To shorten the radius of (a curve); to make (a curve) sharper.
Examples:
"to quicken the sheer, that is, to make its curve more pronounced"
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Quicken as a noun (now, _, chiefly, Northern England):
The European rowan, Sorbus aucuparia.