speed up
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
move faster
The car accelerated
Types & categories
Related & opposite
Sense 2 verb
cause to move faster
He accelerated the car
Types & categories
- change hypernym
Related & opposite
- decelerate antonym
- speeding derivation
- speedup derivation
- throttle derivation
- accelerator derivation
- fastness derivation
- acceleration derivation
- speed derivation
- accelerative derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | antonym | Related & opposite | slow down |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | speeding |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | speedup |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | fastness |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | speed |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | accelerative |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | deepen |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | brisk |
| 2 | antonym | Related & opposite | decelerate |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | speeding |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | speedup |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | throttle |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | accelerator |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | fastness |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | acceleration |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | speed |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | accelerative |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | change |