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ускорить — meaning in English

uskorit

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English meaning

  • accelerate verb To go faster, or to make something go 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

ускорить 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.
  • 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.]

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.

precipitate — full definition

  1. verb To cause something to happen suddenly, often before it is ready to.
  2. verb (chemistry) To separate out of a solution as a solid.
  3. adjective Acting with reckless haste; hasty or rash.

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