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verb

Accelerate v. t. (past & past part. accelerated; pres. part. accelerating)

To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of; opposed to retard.

To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of; as, to accelerate the growth of a plant, the increase of wealth, etc.

To hasten, as the occurence of an event; as, to accelerate our departure.

Accelerated motion (Mech.), motion with a continually increasing velocity.

Accelerating force, the force which causes accelerated motion.

Synonyms: To hasten; expedite; quicken; dispatch; forward; advance; further.

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Etymology of 'Accelerate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Accelerate" Quotes from Famous Books

... be certain about that. I have precise information. I do not dispute that he may have contributed to accelerate the course of events by the moral influence, so to say, of the affront; but as to the general conduct and moral characteristics of that personage, I am in agreement with you. I do not know whether he is well off now, and precisely what Marfa Petrovna left him; this will ...

— Crime and Punishment • Fyodor Dostoyevsky

... audience; and, greatly as she enjoyed the opportunity of gathering from him news of Vienna and of the old friends of the childhood of whom she still cherished an affectionate recollection, she was yet forced to dismiss him after a few minutes' conversation, and to beg him to accelerate his departure from Paris, lest even that short interview should be made a pretext for fresh calumnies. "The kindest thing that any Austrian of mark could do for her," she told her brother, "was to keep away from Paris ...

— The Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France • Charles Duke Yonge

... his adversaries have an army, and a people wholly or almost wholly in arms, and making means of resistance out of every thing, each individual of whom conspires against the common enemy; even the non-combatants have an interest in his ruin and accelerate it by every means in their power. He holds scarcely any ground but that upon which he encamps; outside the limits of his camp every thing is hostile and multiplies a thousandfold the difficulties ...

— The Art of War • Baron Henri de Jomini

... order given by the boatswain and his mates on piping up the hammocks, to accelerate ...

— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth

... problem is to be solved we must cease to accelerate surface run-off by burning the forests and brush fields, overgrazing the range, clearing steep slopes for agriculture, and practicing antiquated methods of cultivation. On the contrary, the farmer, the forester, and the stockman must cooperate in seeing that the land is so used ...

— Community Civics and Rural Life • Arthur W. Dunn

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