Definition of "hastening" []

• Present participle of hasten. (verb)
• The act of speeding up; a growing faster. (noun)

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• "Although its avowed purpose was to bring together the feuding revolutionary factions, it only succeeded in hastening the final split."
• "The Earth is indisputably getting warmer overall, and human activity is definitely playing a part in hastening that warming trend."
• "The emergent right to receive medical assistance in hastening one's death [is an] inevitable consequence of changes in the causes of death, advances in medical science, and the development of new technologies."