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sped

American  
[sped] / spɛd /

verb

  1. a simple past tense and past participle of speed.

sped British  
/ spɛd /

verb

  1. a past tense and past participle of speed

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The team is also interested in an unexpected outcome: although the infiltrating macrophages sped up healing, they did not appear to reduce acute pain.

From Science Daily

Email, shared calendars and CRMs sped up familiar tasks without changing who did what.

From The Wall Street Journal

A plume of smoke billowed from the crash site as emergency vehicles sped towards it.

From Barron's

Armed excise officers, with a sniffer dog, sped across the Ganges on a boat to raid an illegal distillery.

From BBC

The measure had been expected to take a few days to reach the US Senate, but after the resounding afternoon vote in the House, the timeline quickly sped up.

From BBC

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