accelerate
To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of.
Other meanings
To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of.
“The company plans to accelerate its growth with new marketing strategies.”
To cause a change of velocity.
Synonyms
- speed up
- speed
Related words
- acceleratable
- deaccelerate
- outaccelerate
- overaccelerate
- reaccelerate
- accelerated motion
- accelerating force
- accelerative
- accelerator
- post-accelerate
- accelerated ageing
- accelerated aging
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “accelerate” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.