Synonyms of the word festinate


FESTINATEACT - HASTEN - HURRY - MOVE - RUSH

festinate

  • v. (medicine) To become involuntarily quicker, such as when walking or speaking, due to certain disorders.
  • v. (obsolete) To hurry.
  • adj. (obsolete) hurried, hasty.

act

  • n. (countable) Something done, a deed.
  • n. (obsolete, uncountable) Actuality.
  • n. (countable) A product of a legislative body, a statute.
  • n. The process of doing something.
  • n. (countable) A formal or official record of something done.
  • n. (countable) A division of a theatrical performance.
  • n. (countable) A performer or performers in a show.
  • n. (countable) Any organized activity.
  • n. (countable) A display of behaviour.
  • n. A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the…
  • n. (countable) A display of behaviour meant to deceive.
  • v. (intransitive) To do something.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To do (something); to perform.
  • v. (intransitive) To perform a theatrical role.
  • v. (intransitive) To behave in a certain way.
  • v. (copulative) To convey an appearance of being.
  • v. To do something that causes a change binding on the doer.
  • v. (intransitive, construed with on or upon) To have an effect (on).
  • v. (transitive) To play (a role).
  • v. (transitive) To feign.
  • v. (mathematics, intransitive, construed with on or upon, of a group) To map via a homomorphism to a group…
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To move to action; to actuate; to animate.

hasten

  • v. To move in a quick fashion.
  • v. To make someone speed up or make something happen quicker.
  • v. To cause some scheduled event to happen earlier.

hurry

  • n. Rushed action.
  • n. Urgency.
  • n. (sports) In American football, an incidence of a defensive player forcing the quarterback to act faster…
  • v. (intransitive) To do things quickly.
  • v. (intransitive) Often with up, to speed up the rate of doing something.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to be done quickly.
  • v. (transitive) To hasten; to impel to greater speed; to urge on.
  • v. (transitive) To impel to precipitate or thoughtless action; to urge to confused or irregular activity.

move

  • v. (intransitive) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to…
  • v. (intransitive) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act.
  • v. (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and…
  • v. (intransitive, chess, and other games) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of…
  • v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry,…
  • v. (transitive, chess) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the…
  • v. (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion,…
  • v. (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion,…
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration…
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a…
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue);…
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
  • v. (law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.
  • n. The act of moving; a movement.
  • n. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
  • n. A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand…
  • n. The event of changing one's residence.
  • n. A change in strategy.
  • n. A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
  • n. (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules…

rush

  • n. Any of several stiff plants of the genus Juncus, or the family Juncaceae, having hollow or pithy stems…
  • n. The stem of such plants used in making baskets, mats, the seats of chairs, etc.
  • n. The merest trifle; a straw.
  • n. A sudden forward motion.
  • n. A surge.
  • n. General haste.
  • n. A rapid, noisy flow.
  • n. (military) A sudden attack; an onslaught.
  • n. (contact sports) The act of running at another player to block or disrupt play.
  • n. (American football, dated) A rusher; a lineman.
  • n. A sudden, brief exhilaration, for instance the pleasurable sensation produced by a stimulant.
  • n. (US, figuratively) A regulated period of recruitment in fraternities and sororities.
  • n. (US, dated, college slang) A perfect recitation.
  • n. (croquet) A roquet in which the object ball is sent to a particular location on the lawn.
  • v. (transitive or intransitive) To hurry; to perform a task with great haste.
  • v. (intransitive) To flow or move forward rapidly or noisily.
  • v. (intransitive, soccer) To dribble rapidly.
  • v. (transitive or intransitive, contact sports) To run directly at another player in order to block or disrupt…
  • v. (transitive) To cause to move or act with unusual haste.
  • v. (intransitive, military) To make a swift or sudden attack.
  • v. (military) To swiftly attach to without warning.
  • v. (transitive or intransitive, US, college) To attempt to join a fraternity or sorority; to undergo hazing…
  • v. (transitive) To transport or carry quickly.
  • v. (transitive or intransitive, croquet) To roquet an object ball to a particular location on the lawn.
  • v. (US, slang, dated) To recite (a lesson) or pass (an examination) without an error.
  • adj. Performed with, or requiring urgency or great haste, or done under pressure.

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