Meaning of accelerate in English | Powered by Free Dictionary API

verb

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

• To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of.

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

• To cause a change of velocity.

• To hasten, as the occurrence of an event.

  Example: to accelerate our departure

• To enable a student to finish a course of study in less than normal time.

• To become faster; to begin to move more quickly.

• Grow; increase.

adjective

• Accelerated; quickened; hastened; hurried.