Accelerate

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  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To increase the speed of: synonym: speed.
  • intransitive verb. To change the velocity of.
  • intransitive verb. To cause to occur sooner than expected.
  • intransitive verb. To cause to develop or progress more quickly.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To reduce the time required for (an academic course, for example); compress into a shorter period.
  • intransitive verb. To make it possible for (a student) to finish an academic course faster than usual.
  • intransitive verb. To move or act faster.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To assign a date earlier than the true or real one; give an earlier date to; antedate.
  • 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of; -- opposed to retard.
  • transitive verb. To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of
  • transitive verb. To hasten, as the occurence of an event.
  • transitive verb. motion with a continually increasing velocity.
  • transitive verb. the force which causes accelerated motion.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of.
  • verb. To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of.
  • verb. To cause a change of velocity.
  • verb. To hasten, as the occurrence of an event.
  • verb. To enable a student to finish a course of study in less than normal time.
  • verb. To become faster; to begin to move more quickly.
  • verb. Grow; increase.
  • verb. Alternative form of accelerated.
  • adjective. Accelerated; quickened; hastened; hurried.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. cause to move faster
  • verb. move faster
  • Word Usage
    "And all of that combined, I think helps us to, what I call accelerate the problem to that solution."
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