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speeding

[ spee-ding ]

noun

  1. the act or practice of exceeding the speed limit:

    a $50 fine for speeding.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of speeding1

1250–1300, for earlier sense “the condition of prospering”; 1905–10 for current sense; Middle English; speed, -ing 1

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Example Sentences

Farrell issued a ticket to an 18-year-old shipyard worker for speeding and an improper exhaust mechanism, according to the TP.

The second stop for speeding happened in another state a year later.

He said his son was confused why he was being pulled over—other cars had been speeding by him—before hanging up the phone.

Maybe he had been at a card game—wherever he was, it was late and he was speeding in the rain.

In 2012, he “punched her in the neck and dragged her alongside a speeding car with their two children in the vehicle.”

The quickening of one part of the process necessitated the "speeding up" of all the others.

Alice Arden, you little dream of the man and the route by which, possibly, deliverance is speeding to you.

It was the face of a man who ran his mental dynamo at top speed in defiance of nature's laws against speeding.

I am speeding toward Pittsburgh, the very heart of the industrial struggle of America.

About six in the morning the Kirkcaldy coach came speeding past, the coachman making the air ring with a shrill trumpet blast.

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