beeilen — meaning in English
German → English · translate English → German instead
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
- verb To go faster, or to make something go faster.
- verb To make something happen sooner or more quickly than planned.
dispatch — full definition
- verb To send something or someone off promptly for a specific purpose.
- verb To deal with a task or piece of business quickly and efficiently.
- noun A message, report, or shipment sent promptly, often an official or urgent one.