speed up

speed up

vb (adverb)

to increase or cause to increase in speed or rate; accelerate

n speed-up

an instance of this; acceleration

Usage: The past tense and past participle of speed up is speeded up, not sped up

Thesaurus

Verb	1.	speed up - move faster; "The car accelerated"   accelerate, quicken, speed brisk, brisk up, brisken - become brisk; "business brisked up" deepen, intensify - become more intense; "The debate intensified"; "His dislike for raw fish only deepened in Japan"
	2.	speed up - cause to move faster; "He accelerated the car" accelerate, speed alter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue"

Translations

? speed up pret, ptp <speeded up>

vi (car, driver etc) → beschleunigen; (person) → Tempo zulegen, schneller machen; (work, production etc) → schneller werden; their pace speeded up → ihr Tempo wurde schneller; with practice you’ll speed up → wenn du erst mehr Übung hast, wirst du schneller

vt sep → beschleunigen; person → antreiben, auf Trab bringen (inf); that speeded me up → das hat mir Antrieb gegeben; tell her to speed up that coffee (inf) → sag ihr, sie soll sich mit dem Kaffee beeilen

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speed up → يُسْرِع zrychlit sætte farten op beschleunigen επισπεύδω acelerar nopeuttaa accélérer ubrzati accelerare 速度を上げる 속도를 내다 versnellen øke farten przyśpieszyć acelerar увеличивать скорость skynda (sig) på เร่งให้เร็วขึ้น hızlanmak tăng tốc 加速