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 increase the power of an internal combustion engine (either Otto or Diesel cycle) by compressing the inlet air with power extracted 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.