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upsped

upsped is the simple past and past participle of upspeed.

Meaning of upspeed

Verb

upspeed (third-person singular simple present upspeeds, present participle upspeeding, simple past and past participle upsped or upspeeded)

  1. (transitive) To speed up.
    • The helmsman stood beside the helm, / The flesh from off him fell; / And in his stead there was upsped / A grisly Death from Hell.1872, John Payne, Songs of Life and Death, page 9

Questions about upsped

What is upsped the simple past and past participle of?
Upsped is the simple past and past participle of upspeed.

Words near upsped in the dictionary

  1. upspeaks
  2. upspear
  3. upspeared
  4. upspearing
  5. upspears
  6. upsped
  7. upspeed
  8. upspeeded
  9. upspeeding
  10. upspeeds
  11. upspew

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Adapted from Wiktionary: upsped (page history and authors); upspeed (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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