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upspeed

upspeed verb: to speed up.

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
    • In dial peer 1, any calls to an extension 2000 thru 2009 that are answered by a modem will use modem relay using Named Signaling Events (NSE) to upspeed the codec to G.711ulaw if modem relay fails to negotiate.2011, Toby Sauer, Kevin Wallace, CCNP Voice CVoice 642-437 Quick Reference

Forms of upspeed

third-person singular presentupspeeds
present participleupspeeding
past participleupsped
pastupsped
past participleupspeeded
pastupspeeded

Origin of upspeed

up- + speed

Questions about upspeed

What does upspeed mean?
Upspeed means to speed up.
What part of speech is upspeed?
Upspeed is a verb.
What is the past tense of upspeed?
The past tense of upspeed is upsped.

Words near upspeed in the dictionary

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

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