Dictionary Entry

make haste

Part of SpeechverbPronunciation/meɪk heɪst/Used In Literature ↓

To hurry or hasten.

In a Sentence

“We need to make haste if we want to catch the early train.”

Origin

From Middle English, combining the verb ‘make’ with ‘haste’ (from Old French ‘haste’, from Latin ‘habere’).

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Poetry examples for “make haste”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

Think no more, lad; laugh, be jolly:
Why should men make haste to die?
Empty heads and tongues a-talking

Thy labour ever lasts; she asks but little."
She gave me leave; soft loves, in time make haste;
Some greater work will urge me on at last. 70

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business. . . .even so,let us make haste
--consider well this ruined aqueduct

The Stars are setting and the Caravan
Starts for the Dawn of Nothing—Oh, make haste!

None? [_Cries from within of_ "STRAFFORD!"
Slingsby, I 've loved you at least: make haste!
Stab me! I have not time to tell you why.

Who were his comrades, what their dreams;
"And now make haste," I said, "to pray
"The one spot from his soul away;

"You must make haste and learn to write, Punch," said Papa, "and then
you'll be able to write letters to us in Bombay."

Now that our morning meal is done,
Make haste, your morning task resign;
Come forth and feel the sun.

Now that our morning meal is done,
Make haste, your morning task resign;
Come forth and feel the sun.