Thesaurus:speed up
English
Verb
Sense: go faster
Synonyms
- accelerate
- chop-chop (interjection telling someone to hurry up)
- get a move on (idiomatic)
- get a wiggle on (idiomatic)
- get it on (idiomatic)
- get one's ass in gear (idiomatic)
- get one's skates on (idiomatic)
- get the lead out (idiomatic)
- hasten
- hurry up
- mend one's pace (dated)
- pick up speed
- put on (obsolete)
- quicken
- speed up
- step up
- surge
Antonyms
- immobilize [⇒ thesaurus]
- stop [⇒ thesaurus]
- —
- decelerate
- put the brakes on
- rein in (idiomatic)
- retard
- slow [⇒ thesaurus]
- slow down [⇒ thesaurus]
- slow up
- unaccelerate
Hyponyms
- burn rubber (idiomatic)
- floor it
- give it the gun (idiomatic)
- hit the gas (idiomatic)
- lay rubber (idiomatic)
- peel out (US, idiomatic)
- put one's foot down
- put the pedal to the metal (idiomatic)
- rev up (idiomatic)
- redline
- step on it
- step on the gas (idiomatic)
- tach up (idiomatic)
Hypernyms
See also
Further reading
- “274. velocity” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “684. haste” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “speed up” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.