kiihtyä — meaning in English
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English meaning
- accelerate verb To go faster, or to make something go faster.
- mount noun A hill or mountain, especially used before a proper name.
Senses
kiihtyä 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 (intransitive) To become faster; to begin to move more quickly.
- gather pace To start to happen more quickly; to accelerate.
- mount (intransitive, sometimes, with up) To increase in quantity or intensity.
- speed up (idiomatic, intransitive) To accelerate; to increase speed.
accelerate — full definition
- verb To go faster, or to make something go faster.
- verb To make something happen sooner or more quickly than planned.
mount — full definition
- noun A hill or mountain, especially used before a proper name.
- noun An animal, especially a horse, that a person rides.
- noun A backing, frame, or fixture that something is attached to or displayed on.
- verb To climb onto or get up on something, especially a horse or bicycle.
- verb To attach or fix something onto a support, backing, or wall.