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Speeding   /spˈidɪŋ/   Listen
Speeding

noun
1.
Changing location rapidly.  Synonyms: hurrying, speed.



Speed

verb
(past & past part. sped, speeded; pres. part. speeding)
1.
Move fast.  Synonyms: belt along, bucket along, cannonball along, hasten, hie, hotfoot, pelt along, race, rush, rush along, step on it.  "The cars raced down the street"
2.
Move faster.  Synonyms: accelerate, quicken, speed up.
3.
Move very fast.  Synonyms: hurry, travel rapidly, zip.
4.
Travel at an excessive or illegal velocity.
5.
Cause to move faster.  Synonyms: accelerate, speed up.



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"Speeding" Quotes from Famous Books



... it about a little. And then he withdrew it again and was in the act of smoothing the place when she saw him glance sharply towards the gate, and the next instant leap behind a bush. Simultaneously the hum of a motor car fell on her ear, and Mary was out of the room and speeding upstairs. ...
— Simon • J. Storer Clouston

... that thou art poor; Hold, there is forty ducats: let me have A dram of poison; such soon-speeding gear As will disperse itself through all the veins That the life-weary taker mall fall dead; And that the trunk may be discharg'd of breath As violently as hasty powder fir'd Doth hurry ...
— Romeo and Juliet • William Shakespeare [Collins edition]

... a few moments the Uncas was speeding away in the direction of the stranger. And after that there was a long weary wait while the two vessels gradually ...
— A Prisoner of Morro - In the Hands of the Enemy • Upton Sinclair

... to leather, but before he was in his seat Blake was letting in the friction clutch, and a moment later, at ever gathering speed, the shining motor cycle was speeding down the road to the rescue. Would Joe and Blake be ...
— The Moving Picture Boys at Panama - Stirring Adventures Along the Great Canal • Victor Appleton

... for nearly a week, and at the end of that time they were so low in our northern horizon that we could not make out their signals; we and they were obliged to wait till they had passed through two-thirds of their month before we could communicate again. I used the time in speeding to No. 9. We got a few carpenters together, and arranged on the Flat two long movable black platforms, which ran in and out on railroad-wheels on tracks, from under green platforms; so that we could display one or both as we chose, and then withdraw ...
— The Brick Moon, et. al. • Edward Everett Hale


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