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mend one's pace

mend one's pace verb: to speed up, travel faster; also, to adjust one's speed to match that of a companion.

Verb

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)

  1. (dated) To speed up, travel faster; also, to adjust one's speed to match that of a companion.
    • The hurt nigger moaned feebly somewhere near by, and then fetched a deep sigh that made me mend my pace away from there.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

Forms of mend one's pace

third-person singular presentmends one's pace
present participlemending one's pace
past participlemended one's pace
pastmended one's pace

Questions about mend one's pace

What does mend one's pace mean?
Mend one's pace means to speed up, travel faster; also, to adjust one's speed to match that of a companion.
What part of speech is mend one's pace?
Mend one's pace is a verb.
What is the past tense of mend one's pace?
The past tense of mend one's pace is mended one's pace.

Words near mend one's pace in the dictionary

  1. Menckenism
  2. Menckenisms
  3. Menckes
  4. mend
  5. mend fences
  6. mend one's pace
  7. mend one's ways
  8. mendability
  9. mendable
  10. mendaciloquence
  11. mendaciloquent

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