kiihdyttää — meaning in English
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English meaning
- accelerate verb To go faster, or to make something go faster.
- advance verb To move forward, or to help something make progress.
- gun noun A weapon that fires bullets or shells using an explosive charge, ranging from handguns to rifles and artillery.
- precipitate verb To cause something to happen suddenly, often before it is ready to.
- supercharge verb To boost an engine's power by forcing extra compressed air into it using energy taken from the crankshaft.
Senses
kiihdyttää is used for these senses in English:
- accelerate (transitive) To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of.
- accelerate (transitive) To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of.
- advance To make (something) happen at an earlier time or date; to bring forward, to hasten. [form 15th c.]
- catalyze (transitive) To accelerate a process.
- gun (informal) (gunning for something or gunning to do something) make a great effort.
- precipitate (transitive) To make something happen suddenly and quickly.
- speed up (idiomatic, intransitive) To accelerate; to increase speed.
- step up (transitive, idiomatic) To increase, augment, or advance, especially by one or more steps.
accelerate — full definition
- verb To go faster, or to make something go faster.
- verb To make something happen sooner or more quickly than planned.
advance — full definition
- verb To move forward, or to help something make progress.
- verb To give money before it is normally due.
- noun Forward movement or progress, or money paid before it is due.
- adj Happening or done ahead of time.
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