You’re listening to Lingo Phoenix’s word of the day for August 2.

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Today’s word is zoom, spelled z-o-o-m.

zoom /zuːm/ verb [intransitive] informal

to go somewhere or do something very quickly SYN whizz, zip

A fire engine zoomed past us.

The work was really easy and I was able to zoom through it in a couple of hours.

They got in the car and zoomed away.

The group of bicycle racers zoomed past.

After her first successful cases she zoomed to the top of her profession.

Cars can zoom the length of a football field in a single second.

— New York Times, 29 May 2021

: to increase sharply

In two months the magazine’s circulation zoomed to 26,000.

Inflation zoomed to 123%.

Housing sales have zoomed in recent months.

With your word of the day, I’m Mohammad Golpayegani.

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