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SPEEDING

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Changing location rapidly

Synonyms:

hurrying; speed; speeding

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("speeding" is a kind of...):

motion; move; movement (the act of changing location from one place to another)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "speeding"):

acceleration; quickening; speedup (the act of accelerating; increasing the speed)

deceleration (the act of decelerating; decreasing the speed)

scud; scudding (the act of moving along swiftly (as before a gale))

Derivation:

speed (travel at an excessive or illegal velocity)

speed (move hurridly)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

-ing form of the verb speed

Credits

 Context examples: 

Sleepy old brother Athanasius, at the porter's cell, had a fleeting vision of twinkling feet and flying skirts; but before he had time to rub his eyes the recreant had passed the lodge, and was speeding as fast as his sandals could patter along the Lyndhurst Road.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)