decelerate

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to get faster
speed upThe car sped up to 100 mph.
pick up speedThe hurricane is picking up speed as it approaches the coast.
gain speedAccidents often happen when a driver gains speed going downhill.
gather speedThe economic recovery was starting to gather speed.
accelerateThe vehicle accelerated around the turn.
The driver accelerated on the bend and appeared to lose control of the vehicle.
We watched as the motorbike accelerated away into the distance.
The van driver accelerated every time I tried to overtake him.
Anne gripped my hand as the plane began accelerating along the runway.
You have to accelerate gradually as you run down the track, and then take a big jump.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Increasing and decreasing speed of motion
accelerant
accelerating
acceleration
accelerative
brake
catch
catch (someone) up
dampener
foot
gun
non-accelerating
pickup
quicken
retard
retardation
spurt
step on the gasidiom
throttle (something) back/down
upshift
upshifting

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Hurrying and doing things quickly

accelerate | American Dictionary

accelerate
verb
us/ɪkˈsel·əˌreɪt, æk-/

accelerateverb (GO FASTER)

[ I ]
to move more quickly, or to make something happen faster or sooner:
[ I ]He stepped on the gas and accelerated rapidly to pass a car.

accelerateverb (INCREASE RATE)

[ T ] physics
to make something, esp. a process or a very small piece of matter, move faster

accelerate | Business English

accelerate
verb[ I or T ]
uk /əkˈseləreɪt/us
to go faster or make something go faster:
The car can accelerate to 60 miles per hour in just 6 seconds.
Inflation is likely to accelerate this year, adding further upward pressure on interest rates.
They use chemical treatments to accelerate the growth of crops.

Examples of accelerate

accelerate
Photoinhibition accelerated with increase of incident irradiance and relaxed in the afternoon.
By rapidly accelerating the hip forward (flexion velocity and flexion moment), there is a positive power.
Perhaps the more likely explanation is an accelerating decline in the marginal value of additional survival time (independent of pure time preference).
Finally, ambulatory surgery or accelerated discharge programs are not appropriate for all breast cancer patients.
The possible explanation is that long term in vitro culture alters donor cell metabolism, which accelerates the regression of donor cells.
The presence of the spike accelerated their response kinetics and enhanced the peak membrane potential of bipolar cells.
Although no maturation kinetics studies were carried out, this observation would indicate that meiotic maturation is accelerated after a period of inhibition.
Both are the causes of matter's shape and its motion - inertial as well as accelerated.
The principal instrument was accelerated implementation of concrete structural reforms such as privatisation.
The development of larval nematodes in copepod intermediate hosts may be accelerated by increasing the temperature.
Since some seeds are small, they could be carried into space in large numbers and accelerated toward distant targets.
The instability of liquid sur faces when accelerated in a direction perpendicular to their planes.
The results show that the asymmetry is produced by a significant fraction of high-energetic ions accelerated during the laser- cluster interaction.
We see that the laser radiation blows off the electrons and accelerates them in the forward direction.
The wire arrays are accelerated towards the axis of the hohlraum by the applied current.
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