What are some opposite words for speed up?
Antonyms for speed upspeed up
This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term speed up.
Princeton's WordNet
accelerate, speed up, speed, quickenverb
move faster
"The car accelerated"
Synonyms:
recreate, hotfoot, zip, travel rapidly, quicken, cannonball along, vivify, whet, bucket along, race, hurry, rush along, hie, hasten, belt along, speed, accelerate, renovate, revivify, reanimate, pelt along, animate, repair, revive, invigorate, step on it, rushaccelerate, speed, speed upverb
cause to move faster
"He accelerated the car"
Synonyms:
hotfoot, zip, travel rapidly, quicken, cannonball along, bucket along, race, hurry, rush along, hie, hasten, belt along, speed, accelerate, pelt along, step on it, rush
How to use speed up in a sentence?
This is the largest amount of forest funding ever pledged and it comes at a crucial time for the world's rainforests. The new commitments have the potential to speed up necessary action from both governments and companies. We hope this funding will spur the political changes needed, with big money comes big opportunities, but also great responsibilities. There is not time for baby-steps. Funding should therefore only reward real and substantial action taken by rainforest countries and those who respect the rights of Indigenous people and local communities.
You can start basically peeling back the onion, hopefully what it will do is it will speed up the process by which they can actually look at all of the different elements of this and possibly roll up some more suspects.
We have to speed up production because there is an under supply.
Andrej Babis ... has the right and also the duty, as an election winner, to negotiate the government, i will do this to speed up the process.
The floods have literally pulled the rug from under people's feet, we will be faced with such events over and over, and that means we need to speed up climate protection measures, on European, federal and global levels, because climate change isn't confined to one state.
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