1 to happen or to make sth happen faster or earlier than expected:
[V] Inflation continues to accelerate. * [VN] Exposure to the sun can accelerate the ageing process.
2 [V] (of a vehicle or person) to start to go faster:
The runners accelerated smoothly around the bend. * The car accelerated to overtake me.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for accelerate is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is accelerate a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, accelerate is tagged as verb.
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