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Speeding   /spˈidɪŋ/   Listen
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Speed  v. t.  (past & past part. sped, speeded; pres. part. speeding)  
1.
To cause to be successful, or to prosper; hence, to aid; to favor. "Fortune speed us!" "With rising gales that speed their happy flight."
2.
To cause to make haste; to dispatch with celerity; to drive at full speed; hence, to hasten; to hurry. "He sped him thence home to his habitation."
3.
To hasten to a conclusion; to expedite. "Judicial acts... are sped in open court at the instance of one or both of the parties."
4.
To hurry to destruction; to put an end to; to ruin; to undo. "Sped with spavins." "A dire dilemma! either way I 'm sped. If foes, they write, if friends, they read, me dead."
5.
To wish success or god fortune to, in any undertaking, especially in setting out upon a journey. "Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest."
God speed you, God speed them, etc., may God speed you; or, may you have good speed.
Synonyms: To dispatch; hasten; expedite; accelerate; hurry.


Speed  v. i.  (past & past part. sped, speeded; pres. part. speeding)  
1.
To go; to fare. (Obs.) "To warn him now he is too farre sped."
2.
To experience in going; to have any condition, good or ill; to fare. "Ships heretofore in seas like fishes sped; The mightiest still upon the smallest fed."
3.
To fare well; to have success; to prosper. "Save London, and send true lawyers their meed! For whoso wants money with them shall not speed!" "I told ye then he should prevail, and speed On his bad errand."
4.
To make haste; to move with celerity. "I have speeded hither with the very extremest inch of possibility."
5.
To be expedient. (Obs.)





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"Speeding" Quotes from Famous Books



... air. Moreover, as the Roman Empire was built upon its roads and as the foundations of the British Empire have hitherto rested upon its shipping, as steam, the cable and wireless have each in turn been harnessed to the work of speeding up communications, so to-day, with the opening of a new era of Imperial co-operation and consultation, this new means of transport by air, with a speed hitherto undreamed of, must be utilized for communication ...
— Aviation in Peace and War • Sir Frederick Hugh Sykes
... Presently they turned round a corner and left the house behind out of sight; and they were speeding away along a road that was quite new to her. Ellen's heart felt like dancing for joy. Nobody would have thought it, she sat so still and quiet between Alice and her brother; but her eyes were very bright as they looked joyously about her, and every now and then ...
— The Wide, Wide World • Elizabeth Wetherell
... were speeding up the Gareloch; still later, down the west side; then through the village of Roseneath, over the hill into Kilcreggan; then round the point and up ...
— Till the Clock Stops • John Joy Bell
... Catcat who had had no hint of the partial disruption of Thunder's unparalleled show ran to their doors, and beheld the hunt with speechless wonder. They saw a huge, monkey-like creature speeding up the street, pursued and pelted by ...
— The Missing Link • Edward Dyson
... gentleman—upon whose track it is expedient to follow with hurried steps, lest this history should be chargeable with inconstancy, and the offence of leaving its characters in situations of uncertainty and doubt—Kit's mother and the single gentleman, speeding onward in the post-chaise-and-four whose departure from the Notary's door we have already witnessed, soon left the town behind them, and struck fire from the ...
— The Old Curiosity Shop • Charles Dickens


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