Thesaurus:speed up

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

• increase    [⇒ thesaurus]

See also

• Thesaurus:immediately
• Thesaurus:quickly
• Thesaurus:rush

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.