mend one's pace
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mend one's pace (third-person singular simple present mends one's pace, present participle mending one's pace, simple past and past participle mended one's pace)
- (dated) To speed up, travel faster; also, to adjust one's speed to match that of a companion.
- 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I:
- The hurt nigger moaned feebly somewhere near by, and then fetched a deep sigh that made me mend my pace away from there.
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to speed up
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