Make and Speed up

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Make verb - To bring into being by combining, shaping, or transforming materials.

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Speed up and make are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Speed up" instead a verb "Make".

Nearby Words: makeup, making, maker

Speed up verb - To cause to move or proceed fast or faster.

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Make and speed up are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Make" instead a verb "Speed up".

On at least one computer system, pressing buttons repeatedly will make it realize that you're impatient, and it will speed up.

Source: Pressure Sensitive Interface
Watching a Video Game: The race in "The Timebomb" has pads with pointed arrows on them that make the racers speed up when they hit them, like something you'd see in a Sonic the Hedgehog game.

Source: Western Animation / Wander over Yonder
Though it does ultimately make it painfully clear that Mike and Sulley only speed up their inevitable expulsion.

Source: Western Animation / Monsters University

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