speed-upnoun [ S ]
uk/ˈspiːd.ʌp/us/ˈspiːd.ʌp/an increase in the rate of change or growth:
Measures should be taken to halt the speed-up in population growth.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Increasing and intensifying
- -ify
- a snowball effect idiom
- accretion
- accumulate
- accumulative
- add fuel to the fire idiom
- balloon
- bump
- dial
- growing
- heighten
- hot up
- increase
- pile
- rack
- scale sth up
- spurt
- step
- step sth up
- supersize
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