accelerō — meaning in English
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English meaning
- accelerate verb To go faster, or to make something go faster.
- hasten verb To move or act quickly, or to make something happen sooner.
- quicken verb To make something happen faster or more quickly.
Senses
accelerō 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.
- hasten (intransitive) To move or act in a quick fashion.
- hasten (transitive) To make someone speed up or make something happen quicker.
- 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.
accelerate — full definition
- verb To go faster, or to make something go faster.
- verb To make something happen sooner or more quickly than planned.