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View definitions for speed up

speed up

verb as in facilitate

verb as in precipitate

verb as in step up

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Example Sentences

The rest of us get meaningful information that may speed up the development of the next great medical intervention.

As a result, a satellite passing over a higher-mass region would speed up very slightly, and slow down over a lower-mass one.

The administration has been trying to speed up the delivery of F-16 fighter jets and 24 Apache helicopters to Iraq.

The Food and Drug Administration has taken steps to speed up the process for approving cancer drugs.

But the most bizarre aspect was how time seemed to slow down and speed up without warning.

Sara Lee heard his car going at its usual breakneck speed up the street, and went to the door.

He climbed up the hand-and footholds the sea-monster lamp disclosed, wishing the mermen ahead would speed up.

He pulled his throttle back, shot the speed up, rumbling down the hill, toward the village.

He frowned and bit his moustache, and in the annoyance of the moment spurred his horse full speed up the castle road.

It was indeed Blant, making desperate speed up the steep slope.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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