hasten vs shoot down

hasten and shoot down both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
hasten	No	No	Yes	No
shoot down	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, shoot down is a hyponym of hasten; that is, shoot down is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than hasten:

Other hyponyms of hasten include barge, push forward, thrust ahead, buck, charge, shoot, tear, dart, dash, flash, scoot, scud, shoot.

hasten (verb)	shoot down (verb)
act at high speed	shoot at and force to come down
cause to occur rapidly	move quickly and violently
move hurridly	thwart the passage of
speed up the progress of; facilitate