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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

  1. verb To go faster, or to make something go faster.
  2. verb To make something happen sooner or more quickly than planned.

mount — full definition

  1. noun A hill or mountain, especially used before a proper name.
  2. noun An animal, especially a horse, that a person rides.
  3. noun A backing, frame, or fixture that something is attached to or displayed on.
  4. verb To climb onto or get up on something, especially a horse or bicycle.
  5. verb To attach or fix something onto a support, backing, or wall.

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