hasten vs impede

hasten

verb
  • To move or act in a quick fashion. 

  • To cause some scheduled event to happen earlier. 

  • To make someone speed up or make something happen quicker. 

impede

verb
  • To get in the way of; to hinder. 

How often have the words hasten and impede occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )