speed

/spiːd/ verb (past tense and past participle sped, speeded)

Definition

speed along/down/past, etc › to move somewhere or happen very fast: The three men jumped into a car and sped away.

be speeding › to be driving faster than you are allowed to

(Definition of speed verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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