accelerate
/ɪkˈsɛl.əˌɹeɪt/verb4 syllables
Accelerate means: move faster.
Synonyms for accelerate3
Opposites of accelerate
decelerate
What does accelerate mean?2
verb
1
move faster“The car accelerated”
2
cause to move faster“He accelerated the car”
Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Accelerate in a sentence
- Accelerate a bit, otherwise the car will stop on this hill.saverius
- Put it in first and slowly let out the clutch while you gradually accelerate.MethodGT
- Sami's life began to accelerate at an incredible pace.OsoHombre
- Ziri's truck was pretty loaded and didn't accelerate well anyways.Amastan
- Social networks can accelerate the spread of misinformation.Naityahia
- Can anything be done to accelerate economic change in Algeria?Amastan
- Yanni wanted to accelerate his learning of Berber.Amastan
- The policy will only accelerate inflation.orcrist
Sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR, credited to their authors.
Forms of accelerate
as a verb
- past tense
- accelerated
- present participle
- accelerating
- third-person singular
- accelerates