mend one's pace
verb1
Dated To speed up, travel faster; also, to adjust one's speed to match that of a companion.
- The hurt nigger moaned feebly somewhere near by, and then fetched a deep sigh that made me mend my pace away from there.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:
- Related terms
- modulate, regulate, synchronize