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

  1. Hasten as a verb (intransitive):

    To move or act in a quick fashion.

  2. Hasten as a verb (transitive):

    To make someone speed up or make something happen quicker.

  3. Hasten as a verb (transitive):

    To cause some scheduled event to happen earlier.

  1. Quicken as a verb (transitive, now, _, literary):

    To give life to; to animate, make alive, revive.

  2. Quicken as a verb (intransitive, now, _, literary):

    To come back to life, receive life.

  3. Quicken as a verb (intransitive):

    To take on a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to be roused, excited.

  4. 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.

  5. Quicken as a verb (transitive):

    To make quicker; to hasten, speed up.

  6. Quicken as a verb (intransitive):

    To become faster.

    Examples:

    "My heartbeat quickened when I heard him approach."

  7. 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"

  1. Quicken as a noun (now, _, chiefly, Northern England):

    The European rowan, Sorbus aucuparia.