Crossword clues for speeded
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Speed \Speed\ (sp[=e]d), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sped (sp[e^]d), Speeded; p. pr. & vb. n. Speeding.] [AS. sp[=e]dan, fr. sp[=e]d, n.; akin to D. spoeden, G. sich sputen. See Speed, n.]
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To go; to fare. [Obs.]
To warn him now he is too farre sped.
--Remedy of Love. -
To experience in going; to have any condition, good or ill; to fare.
--Shak.Ships heretofore in seas like fishes sped; The mightiest still upon the smallest fed.
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To fare well; to have success; to prosper.
Save London, and send true lawyers their meed! For whoso wants money with them shall not speed!
--Lydgate.I told ye then he should prevail, and speed On his bad errand.
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To make haste; to move with celerity.
I have speeded hither with the very extremest inch of possibility.
--Shak. To be expedient. [Obs.]
--Wyclif (2 Cor. xii. 1.)
Wiktionary
vb. (context British English) (en-past of: speed)
Usage examples of "speeded".
Peter speeded up a bit and then stopped in the doorway, a slow, delighted smile spreading over his face like the breaking dawn.
Their time rate was speeded up tremendously, so that what was hundreds of miles per hour to us was feet per minute to them.
The answer of course was, that their time rate had been speeded enough, due to the fact that one field had been completely shut off, the other had not.
With an angry snort he speeded up, moving in introspective silence thereafter.
Nevertheless, they speeded up when they reached the top, zig-zagged frantically around the outer shield, and burst into the control room.
Howard Families that he was sick for the feel of dirt under foot and free air in his lungs, greatly speeded the removal from ship to ground.
Along the road toward Mansburg he speeded, and, as he came to the foot of a hill, where once Andy Foger had put a big tree, hoping Tom would run into it and be injured, the youth recalled that circumstance.
He speeded up his car but when they arrived and climbed the mountainous flights of stairs he found no bent and damaged form as he had expected.