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(CW: pedantry)

Well actually, “speed up” is a phrasal verb that is semantically distinct from “speed”.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_phrasal_verbs

But that all’s irrelevant because this article uses verb definition 5 from Wiktionary for “speed”:

> (transitive) To increase the rate at which something occurs.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_phrasal_verbs




“He was speeding.” Love English!




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