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Speed up   /spid əp/   Listen
Speed up

verb
1.
Move faster.  Synonyms: accelerate, quicken, speed.
2.
Cause to move faster.  Synonyms: accelerate, speed.






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"Speed up" Quotes from Famous Books



... and tore through shrubbery and hedge, the nearest way to the road, followed by Linkum, who even at full speed was not a match for Alec. Away they flew like the wind, along the well-beaten path to the town, over the footbridge that crossed the Glamour, and full speed up the hill to Willie Macwha, who, with a dozen or fifteen more, was anxiously waiting for the commander. They all had their book-bags, pockets, and arms filled with stones lately broken for mending the turnpike road, mostly granite, but partly whinstone and ...
— Alec Forbes of Howglen • George MacDonald

... unofficial estimates. Privatization of state enterprises is progressing, although excessive redtape, bureaucratic oversight, and uncertainties about pricing have slowed the process. Escalating unemployment and high rates of inflation may impede efforts to speed up privatization and budget reform, while Hungary's heavy foreign debt will make the government reluctant to introduce full convertability of the forint before 1993. GDP: purchasing power equivalent - $60.1 billion, per capita $5,700; real growth rate - ...
— The 1992 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... man and at best can do little more than a good man-size day of work. But a man who can induce a dozen other man-machines to speed up and turn out a full day's work apiece doesn't need to work his own hands. He serves his employer more valuably as an ...
— How to Analyze People on Sight - Through the Science of Human Analysis: The Five Human Types • Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict

... only lessen the side effects of the medical treatments but will speed up healing and often reduce the required dose of prescribed drugs. I have had several clients with cancer who chose to have surgery, radiation and chemotherapy, but stayed on a raw food diet and took high doses of supplements throughout ...
— How and When to Be Your Own Doctor • Dr. Isabelle A. Moser with Steve Solomon

... on this for some time. Of one thing I was extremely careful—to make my estimate large enough so that I couldn't possibly lose anything but my profit. Even if I wasn't able to carry out my hope of being able to speed up the gang I should be able to pay my bills and come out of the ...
— One Way Out - A Middle-class New-Englander Emigrates to America • William Carleton



Words linked to "Speed up" :   speed, speedup, quicken, brisken, brisk, alter, brisk up, modify, deepen, decelerate, intensify, change



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