SPEED UP meaning: Increase pace or rate quickly

We found 21 dictionaries that define the word speed up:

General (17 matching dictionaries)

speed up: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
speed-up, speed up: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
speed-up, speed-up, speed up: Collins English Dictionary
speed up: Vocabulary.com
Speed-Up, Speed-up, speed-up: Wordnik
speed-up, speed (sth) up: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
speed-up, speed up: Wiktionary
speed-up: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
speed-up: Infoplease Dictionary
speed-up, speed up: Dictionary.com
Speed Up (disambiguation), Speed Up, Speed up: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
speed up: Rhymezone
speed up: FreeDictionary.org
speed up: Mnemonic Dictionary
speed-up, speed up: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)

speed up: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

speed up: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)

Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
speed up: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (speed up)

▸ verb: (idiomatic, intransitive) To accelerate; to increase speed.
▸ verb: (transitive) To accelerate (something): to increase its speed, to make it go faster.

Opposite:

slow down, decelerate, reduce speed

Types:

accelerate, quicken, hasten, precipitate, more...

Phrases:

to speed up, speed up a process, speed it up, speed up process, to speed up the process, more...

Adjectives:

accelerate, career, speeding, accelerant, accelerative, quick, high, inch, up, festinate, upright

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