Meaning & use
accelerate
To increase in speed, or to make something happen sooner or more quickly.
See it in a sentence
The car accelerated smoothly as it merged onto the highway.
New funding helped accelerate the development of the vaccine by several months.
A note on using this word
Accelerate applies literally to physical speed, such as vehicles, and figuratively to processes, such as growth, progress, or change.
Words with a similar meaning
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Words with an opposite meaning
decelerateslow
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