ACCELERATE
Dictionary entry overview: What does accelerate mean?
• ACCELERATE (verb)
The verb ACCELERATE has 2 senses:
1. move faster
2. cause to move faster
Familiarity information: ACCELERATE used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• ACCELERATE (verb)
Meaning:
Move faster
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
accelerate; quicken; speed up; speed
Context example:
The car accelerated
Hypernyms (to "accelerate" is one way to...):
deepen; intensify (become more intense)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "accelerate"):
brisk; brisk up; brisken (become brisk)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sentence example:
These cars won't accelerate
Antonym:
decelerate (lose velocity; move more slowly)
Meaning:
Cause to move faster
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
accelerate; speed up; speed
Context example:
He accelerated the car
Hypernyms (to "accelerate" is one way to...):
modify; qualify (add a modifier to a constituent)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Antonym:
decelerate (reduce the speed of)
