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TRAVEL RAPIDLY
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Move very fast
Example:
The runner zipped past us at breakneck speed
Synonyms:
hurry; speed; travel rapidly; zip
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "travel rapidly" is one way to...):
go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "travel rapidly"):
dart; fleet; flit; flutter (move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart)
run (move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time)
whizz; whizz along; zoom; zoom along (move along very quickly)
Sentence frames:
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
Sentence example:
These cars won't travel rapidly
