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harvest n. 1 crop, yield, produce, output, fruit; vintage: If we get
enough rain, the harvest should be good this year.
--v. 2 reap, gather, pick, glean, collect: The oranges are
harvested while they are still greenish. 3 earn, make, take in,
collect, garner, get, receive, obtain, procure, net: They
harvest huge profits from slot machines.
hash n. 1 mixture, confusion, hotchpotch or US and Canadian
hodgepodge, pot-pourri, gallimaufry, farrago, mishmash, jumble,
mess, shambles, olla podrida, m‚lange, medley: The building is
a hash of a dozen architectural styles. 2 fiasco, disaster,
botch, mess, Slang Brit balls-up, US snafu: The council really
made a hash of its housing policy.
--v. 3 Often, hash up. mangle, mess or mix up, make a hash or
mess or jumble of, muddle, bungle, botch, mishandle, mismanage,
ruin, spoil, butcher, Colloq foul or louse up, screw up, muff,
Brit bugger up: Our plans for a holiday have been all hashed
up.
haste n. 1 swiftness, rapidity, quickness, speed, velocity,
expedition, urgency, dispatch or despatch, alacrity, celerity,
briskness: We must return to Baker Street with all haste,
Watson. 2 hurry, rush, rashness, hastiness, hustle, bustle,
impetuousness or impetuosity, recklessness, precipitancy: Haste
makes waste.
hasten v. 1 hurry, rush, make haste, fly, run, sprint, race, bolt,
dash, scurry, scamper, scuttle, speed: He hastened forward to
greet her. 2 hurry (up), speed (up), dispatch or despatch,
send, move, quicken, accelerate, expedite, rush, impel, urge:
Is there any way to hasten delivery of the mail?
hastily adv. 1 quickly, speedily, swiftly, rapidly, at once,
immediately, instantaneously, promptly, without delay, right
away, straight away, post-haste, hurriedly, directly, suddenly,
in haste, precipitately, on the spur of the moment, in a flash
or wink, before you can say 'Jack Robinson', Colloq pronto, like
a shot, like greased lightning, US lickety-split, Slang p.d.q.
(= 'pretty damned quick'): She left hastily when I asked for
the return of the loan. 2 impetuously, impulsively, rashly,
recklessly, unthinkingly, thoughtlessly, heedlessly,