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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of upshift.

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Examples

  • I used the paddles on the steering wheel and upshifted, letting the car have its way, coaxing it to higher and higher speeds.

    Redline Deadline Charlie Cole 2011

  • It was cloudy, but still muggy, and the sweat drenched her bike shorts and T-shirt as she upshifted into high gear and began to do some serious cranking on the pedals.

    State Of War Clancy, Tom 2003

  • She laughed, plugged the earpiece in and upshifted.

    The Stone Monkey Jeffery Deaver 2002

  • She laughed, plugged the earpiece in and upshifted.

    The Stone Monkey Jeffery Deaver 2002

  • She laughed, plugged the earpiece in and upshifted.

    The Stone Monkey Deaver, Jeffery 2002

  • She laughed, plugged the earpiece in and upshifted.

    The Stone Monkey Jeffery Deaver 2002

  • She laughed, plugged the earpiece in and upshifted.

    A Lincoln Rhyme eBook Boxed Set Jeffery Deaver 2001

  • ** Chapter Twenty-eight A motorcycle engine revved and upshifted somewhere in the adjacent canyons.

    Critical Conditions White, Stephen, 1951- 1998

  • ** Chapter Twenty-eight A motorcycle engine revved and upshifted somewhere in the adjacent canyons.

    Critical Conditions White, Stephen, 1951- 1998

  • Or, to change the metaphor, she upshifted into a gear she only runs in when in a state of complete delight.

    film flam Larry McMurtry 1987

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