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Accelerate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To increase the speed of.

v. To cause to occur sooner than expected.

v. To cause to develop or progress more quickly: a substance used to accelerate a fire.

v. To reduce the time required for (an academic course, for example); compress into a shorter period.

v. To make it possible for (a student) to finish an academic course faster than usual.

v. Physics To change the velocity of.

verb-intransitive. To move or act faster. See Synonyms at speed.

verb-intransitive. To engage in an academic program that progresses faster than usual.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of.

v. To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of.

v. To cause a change of velocity.

v. To hasten, as the occurrence of an event.

v. To enable a student to finish a course of study in less than normal time.

v. To become faster; to begin to move more quickly.

v. Grow; increase.

v. Alternative form of accelerated.

adj. Accelerated; quickened; hastened; hurried.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of; -- opposed to retard.

v. To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of

v. To hasten, as the occurence of an event.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To make quicker; cause to move or advance faster; hasten; add to the velocity of; give a higher rate of progress to: as, to accelerate motion or the rate of motion; to accelerate the transmission of intelligence; to accelerate the growth of a plant, or the progress of knowledge.

To bring nearer in time; bring about, or help to bring about, more speedily than would otherwise have been the case: as, to accelerate the ruin of a government; to accelerate death.

To become faster; increase in speed.

To assign a date earlier than the true or real one; give an earlier date to; antedate.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. cause to move faster

v. move faster

Word Usage

"And all of that combined, I think helps us to, what I call accelerate the problem to that solution."

Antonym

retard decelerate

Verb Form

accelerated accelerates accelerating

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

change modify alter

Cross Reference

accelerating force accelerated motion accelerating gun

Form

accelerative accelerating force accelerated motion accelerator

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

further expedite hasten forward quicken dispatch advance speed up

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

decelerate