accelerate
/əkˈseləreɪt/verb
no obj.
1- (of a vehicle or other physical object) begin to move more quickly（车辆或其他物体）加速：
the car accelerated towards her.
汽车朝她加速冲去。
1.1
- increase in amount or extent（数量或程度上）增加, 增长：
inflation started to accelerate
通货膨胀开始加剧
as adj. accelerating accelerating industrial activity.越来越多的工业活动。
1.2
- Physics undergo a change in velocity【物理】变速。
1.3
- with obj. cause to go faster使加速; 加快：
the key question is whether stress accelerates ageing.
核心问题是压力是否会加快衰老。
派生词
accelerative
adjective词源
early 16th cent. （in the sense 'hasten the occurrence of'）： from Latin accelerat- 'hastened', from the verb accelerare, from ad- 'towards' + celer 'swift'.