speed up
phrasal verbspeed up | speed something up
- to move or happen faster; to make something move or happen faster
- The train soon speeded up.
- Can you try and speed things up a bit?
- They have speeded up production of the new car.
- The daring new technique dramatically speeded up the construction process.
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