ac·cel·er·ate

verb

/əkˈseləreɪt/

Verb Forms

present simple I / you / we / they accelerate	/əkˈseləreɪt/ /əkˈseləreɪt/
he / she / it accelerates	/əkˈseləreɪts/ /əkˈseləreɪts/
past simple accelerated	/əkˈseləreɪtɪd/ /əkˈseləreɪtɪd/
past participle accelerated	/əkˈseləreɪtɪd/ /əkˈseləreɪtɪd/
-ing form accelerating	/əkˈseləreɪtɪŋ/ /əkˈseləreɪtɪŋ/

[intransitive, transitive] to happen faster or earlier; to make something happen faster or earlier（使）加速，加快
- Inflation continues to accelerate.通货膨胀不断加速。
- accelerate something Exposure to the sun can accelerate the ageing process.暴露在日光下会加快老化过程。
Extra Examples
- Government policy has greatly accelerated the decline of the small farmer.政府的政策大大加速了小农的衰落。
- Population growth accelerated only after 1750.1750年后人口增长才加速。
- The epidemic is accelerating dramatically.该流行病正以惊人的速度蔓延。
- The pace of change has begun to accelerate.变革的步伐已经开始加快。
- factors which may accelerate inflation可能加速通货膨胀的因素
- rapidly accelerating social change迅速加速的社会变革
- Environmental factors can accelerate the development of certain cancers.环境因素可能会加快某些癌症的发展。
- He vowed to intensify efforts to accelerate the structural reform of the economy.他表示，要加大力度，加快经济结构性改革。
Topics Change, cause and effectc1
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
adverb
- dramatically
- greatly
- rapidly
- …
[intransitive] (of a vehicle or person) to start to go faster加速；加快
- The runners accelerated smoothly around the bend.赛跑运动员在转弯处顺势加速。
- The car accelerated to overtake me.那辆汽车加速超过了我。
- The car purred into life and accelerated away.那辆轿车轰隆隆地发动起来，然后加速开走了。
opposite decelerate
Wordfinder
- accelerate
- brake
- car
- commute
- driving
- licence
- motorist
- road
- road tax
- traffic
Topics Physics and chemistryc1, Transport by car or lorryc1
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
adverb
- hard
- quickly
- smoothly
- …

Word Originearly 16th cent. (in the sense to make something happen faster): from Latin accelerat- ‘hastened’, from the verb accelerare, from ad- ‘towards’ + celer ‘swift’.