About The Word Accelerate

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Accelerate

Accelerate Meaning & Definition
Accelerate Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Accelerate?

[v] move faster; "The car accelerated"
[v] cause to move faster; "He accelerated the car"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Accelerate: quicken | speed | speed up

Related Terms | Find terms related to Accelerate: activate | aggravate | atomize | beef up | blow up | bombard | bundle | bustle | cleave | complicate | concentrate | condense | consolidate | crack on | cross-bombard | crowd | deepen | dispatch | double | drive | drive on | enhance | exacerbate | exaggerate | expedite | fission | forward | gain ground | get going | haste | hasten | hasten on | heat up | heighten | hie on | hop up | hot up | hurry | hurry along | hurry on | hurry up | hustle | hustle up | impel | intensify | jazz up | key up | magnify | make complex | nucleize | open the throttle | pick up speed | precipitate | press | push | push on | push through | put on | put on steam | quicken | race | railroad through | ramify | redouble | reinforce | rev | rush | rush along | shake up | sharpen | smash the atom | soup up | speed | speed along | speed up | spur | stampede | step on it | step up | strengthen | triple | urge | whet | whip | whip along

See Also | brisk | brisk up | brisken | deepen | intensify

Accelerate In Webster's Dictionary

\Ac*cel"er*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Accelerated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Accelerating}.] [L. acceleratus, p. p. of accelerare; ad + celerare to hasten; celer quick. See {Celerity}.] 1. To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of; -- opposed to {retard}. 2. To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of; as, to accelerate the growth of a plant, the increase of wealth, etc. 3. To hasten, as the occurence of an event; as, to accelerate our departure. {Accelerated motion} (Mech.), motion with a continually increasing velocity. {Accelerating force}, the force which causes accelerated motion. --Nichol. Syn: To hasten; expedite; quicken; dispatch; forward; advance; further.

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