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Antonyms for speed upspeed up

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  1. speed upverb

    Antonyms:
    slow down

  2. speed upverb

    Antonyms:
    slow down

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  1. 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, rush

  2. accelerate, 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?

  1. Rainforest Foundation Norway:

    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.

  2. Khalid El Bakraoui:

    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.

  3. Withoon Danwiboon:

    We have to speed up production because there is an under supply.

  4. President Zeman:

    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.

  5. Armin Laschet:

    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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