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nopeuttaa — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • accelerate verb To go faster, or to make something go faster.
  • expedite verb To make a process happen faster.
  • hurry verb To move or act with speed, or to make someone or something move faster.
  • precipitate verb To cause something to happen suddenly, often before it is ready to.
  • quicken verb To make something happen faster or more quickly.

Senses

nopeuttaa 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.
  • expedite (transitive) To accelerate the progress of.
  • hurry up (emphatic, ambitransitive) To hurry; to increase the speed of doing something.
  • make short work of (transitive, idiomatic) To do (a task) quicker or easier.
  • precipitate (transitive) To make something happen suddenly and quickly.
  • quicken (literary, also, figuratively) To give life to (someone or something never alive or once dead); to animate, to resurrect, to revive. [from 14th c.]
  • 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

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

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