Synonyms for speed-up
- verb
- noun
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Verb
1. Accelerate
accelerate, speed, quicken, pick up speed, hasten, hurry up, precipitate
Other
Noun
acceleration, step-up, quickening, put-on informal
Definitions
- v. 1
To accelerate; to increase speed.
The car sped up as it went around the corner.
- n. 1
An amount or rate of decrease in time taken to do a certain amount of work.
Related words
- Is a kind of
- increase
- Other spellings
- speed up speedup
Forms
- Plural
- speed-ups → accelerations, step-ups, quickenings, put-ons…
Example sentences
- speed Let's see if we can speed up the process a little.
- accelerate Yanni wanted to accelerate his learning of Berber.
- hasten I must hasten to add that I do not mean to blame him.
- speedy I hope your dad gets well soon. I wish him a speedy recovery.
- smarten Smarten up and stop making dumb plans.
By length
- 5 letters
- speed1
- 6 letters
- speedy2, hasten2
- 7 letters
- quicken2, smarten2
- 10 letters
- accelerate4, quickening3
- 11 letters
- precipitate4
- 12 letters
- acceleration5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (speedy2 = 2 syllables).