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beeilen — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • accelerate verb To go faster, or to make something go faster.
  • dispatch verb To send something or someone off promptly for a specific purpose.
  • hasten verb To move or act quickly, or to make something happen sooner.
  • hurry verb To move or act with speed, or to make someone or something move faster.
  • rush verb To hurry or do something very quickly, sometimes carelessly.
  • vamoose verb To leave quickly, especially to escape or avoid trouble.

Senses

beeilen is used for these senses in English:

  • accelerate (transitive) To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of.
  • dispatch (transitive) To dispose of speedily, as business; to execute quickly; to make a speedy end of; to finish; to perform.
  • hasten (intransitive) To move or act in a quick fashion.
  • hotfoot it (intransitive, informal) to hasten; to move rapidly
  • hurry (intransitive) To do things quickly.
  • hurry up (emphatic, ambitransitive) To hurry; to increase the speed of doing something.
  • rush (transitive, or, intransitive) To hurry; to perform a task with great haste, often not properly or without thinking carefully.
  • vamoose (intransitive, slang) To hurry.

accelerate — full definition

  1. verb To go faster, or to make something go faster.
  2. verb To make something happen sooner or more quickly than planned.

dispatch — full definition

  1. verb To send something or someone off promptly for a specific purpose.
  2. verb To deal with a task or piece of business quickly and efficiently.
  3. noun A message, report, or shipment sent promptly, often an official or urgent one.

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