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upspeeding

upspeeding is the present participle and gerund 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 upspeeding

What is upspeeding the present participle and gerund of?
Upspeeding is the present participle and gerund of upspeed.

Words near upspeeding in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: upspeeding (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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