mend one's pace

English

Verb

mend one's pace (third-person singular simple present mends one's pace, present participle mending one's pace, simple past and past participle mended one's pace)

1. (dated) To speed up, travel faster; also, to adjust one's speed to match that of a companion.
   • 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I:

     The hurt nigger moaned feebly somewhere near by, and then fetched a deep sigh that made me mend my pace away from there.

Translations

to speed up

• Russian: приба́вить ша́гу pf (pribávitʹ šágu)

See also

• modulate
• regulate
• synchronize