speed up
verb/spiːd.ˈʌp/
Definitions
To accelerate
To accelerate; to increase speed.
- The car sped up as it went around the corner.
To accelerate (something)
To accelerate (something): to increase its speed, to make it go faster.
- You shouldn't speed up your car when you go around corners.
- The through Moorgate service has been most handsomely speeded up, and suburban trains in both directions now run non-stop between Kings Cross (Underground) and Elstree.
The neighborhood
- synonymaccelerate
- synonymchop-chop
- synonymget a move on
- synonymget a wiggle on
- synonymget it on
- synonymget one's ass in gear
- synonymget one's skates on
- synonymget the lead out
- synonymhasten
- synonymhurry up
- synonymmend one's pace
- synonympick up speed
- antonymimmobilize
- antonymstop
- antonymdecelerate
- antonymput the brakes on
- antonymrein in
- antonymretard
- antonymslow
- antonymslow down
- antonymslow up
- antonymunaccelerate
- neighborimmediately
- neighborquickly
- neighborrush
- neighborincrease
- neighborburn rubber
- neighborfloor it
- neighborgive it the gun
- neighborhit the gas
- neighborlay rubber
- neighborpeel out
- neighborput one's foot down
- neighborput the pedal to the metal
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA