to accelerate
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3.7
- verb
- /əkˈsɛləˌreɪt/
- Specialized
:
acelerar
- The car began to accelerate as it entered the highway, quickly reaching its top speed.
- accelerate the pace
- accelerate the process
- accelerate growth
All that any honest review actually does is just accelerate whatever was already going on.
- All that any honest review actually does is just accelerate whatever was already going on.
- It will keep accelerating in its expansion.
- So this pair will accelerate indefinitely.
- If we're currently expand, if expansion is accelerating, where is that in the curve?
- So that has accelerated things unimaginably.
- You don't need a sunburn for the sun to accelerate the aging appearance of your skin.
- And the weird thing is this rockets slowly accelerating.
Examples
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What might surprise us and accelerate the adoption of renewable energy systems?
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She is accelerating faster than we expected.
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Why are we leaving it to government to step in and accelerate clean energy?
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And this is will only accelerate in the in the coming decades.
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All that any honest review actually does is just accelerate whatever was already going on.
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And that must, that must be going to accelerate the rate of innovation.
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And the pandemic accelerated that in in rich countries as well.
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And I think COVID is this huge experience that accelerated a bit of the breaking apart.
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A bus really cannot accelerate that fast across a farmyard.
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The allies would continue to accelerate the training of the Afghan army.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
637
1.0
To move or act more quickly to avoid being late
191
1.0
To make something move or happen faster
161
2.5
To make something move or happen faster
97
1.0
To make someone move or work faster than they want
74
3.4
Make something greater in amount, speed or strength
47
4.1
To increase something, especially its amount or speed
45
6.5
To make something happen faster and easier
23
4.0
To move or work faster
12
7.5
To make a reaction or process happen faster
12
4.1
To move or happen faster
12
4.6
Make something happen sooner
9
3.7
To press the pedal in a car to make it go faster or hurry to finish something
8
3.6
Press the car pedal to make it go faster
3
2.5
To start moving faster
1
4.4
To try harder or work faster to reach a goal
1
4.6
To make something faster or more active
1
6.2
To make something much faster or more effective
1
3.9
Move or work faster to finish sooner
Antonyms
How Fast
41
3.7
161
2.5
- Specialized
331
3.7
562
1.4
206
2.4
Surface Forms
Morphology
accelerate = ac + celer + ate
The elements are Latinate and not productive or familiar to a typical B1 learner (the core 'celer' is not an English word), so the meaning cannot be reliably derived from the components.
Etymology
Accelerate comes from the Latin parts ad- 'to' and celer 'fast', so it originally meant 'to make fast'. A helpful image is a car's accelerator (the gas pedal) that you press to make the car go faster, which is why accelerate means to increase speed or make something happen more quickly.