accelerate

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

ac·cel·er·ate [accelerate accelerates accelerated accelerating] BrE [əkˈseləreɪt] NAmE [əkˈseləreɪt] verb
1. intransitive, transitive to happen or to make sth happen faster or earlier than expected
•Inflation continues to accelerate.
•~ sth Exposure to the sun can accelerate the ageing process.
2. intransitive (of a vehicle or person)to start to go faster
•The runners accelerated smoothly around the bend.
•The car accelerated to overtake me.
Opp: ↑decelerate
Verb forms:

Word Origin:
early 16th cent. (in the sense to make something happen faster): from Latin accelerat- ‘hastened’, from the verb accelerare, from ad- ‘towards’ + celer ‘swift’.

Thesaurus:
accelerate verb I, T
•a car accelerates
•Exposure to the sun can accelerate the ageing process.
speed (sth) up • |written speed • • hasten •
formal Opp: retard, Opp: decelerate
accelerate/speed up/speed/hasten the pace/progress (of sth)
accelerate/speed/hasten the death of sb/sth
Speed up or speed? Use speed up, not speed, to talk about vehicles moving faster:
•The train soon speeded up.
 ✗ The train soon speeded.

Example Bank:
•Government policy has greatly accelerated the decline of the small farmer.
•Population growth accelerated only after 1750.
•The Aids epidemic is accelerating dramatically.
•The car purred into life and accelerated away.
•The pace of change has begun to accelerate.
•factors which may accelerate inflation
•rapidly accelerating social change
•Environmental factors can accelerate the development of certain cancers.
•He vowed to intensify efforts to accelerate the structural reform of the economy.

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  speed, speed up, quicken
• Từ trái nghĩa / Antonyms:
  decelerate, slow down, slow, slow up, retard