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| accelerating | |
| 1. n. An act of acceleration. |  |
| the acceleratings and brakings of a vehicle | |
| accelerate | |
| 1. v. To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of. | |
| 2. v. To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of. | |
| to accelerate the growth of a plant, the increase of wealth, etc. | |
| 3. v. (transitive, physics) To cause a change of velocity. | |
| 4. v. To hasten, as the occurrence of an event. | |
| to accelerate our departure | |
| 5. v. (transitive, education) To enable a student to finish a course of study in less than normal time. | |
| 6. v. (intransitive) To become faster; to begin to move more quickly. | |
| 7. v. (intransitive) Grow; increase. | |
| 8. v. (obsolete) alternative form of accelerated | |
| 9. adj. (rare) Accelerated; quickened; hastened; hurried. | |
