accelerate

About 2.97 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of.
2. verb To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of.

   to accelerate the growth of a plant, the increase of wealth, etc.

3. verb To cause a change of velocity.
4. verb To hasten, as the occurrence of an event.

   to accelerate our departure

5. verb To enable a student to finish a course of study in less than normal time.
6. verb To become faster; to begin to move more quickly.

   The car began to accelerate as soon as the light turned green.

7. verb Grow; increase.

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

8. adjective Accelerated; quickened; hastened; hurried.

Similar words

speed up speed quicken expedited expedite expeditious speeding expeditiously rapid speedy

Often followed by

the their and its or a in this to

Word family

accelerated accelerates accelerating acceleratingly