About The Word Accelerate
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Accelerate
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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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