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# accelerate

verb (accelerate, accelerates, accelerated, accelerating)

«accelerate» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. To go faster or to make something go faster: the car accelerated. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accelerate/#m1)
2. To make something happen sooner or more quickly: rain accelerated the rusting. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accelerate/#m2)
3. (science) To change velocity, which includes speeding up, slowing down or changing direction. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accelerate/#m3)

### In the lessons

In science lessons on forces and motion, an object accelerates when a force acts on it; gravity makes falling things accelerate. In everyday life cars and bikes accelerate; in safety, drivers must not accelerate near schools. Phrases: accelerate away, accelerate quickly, accelerated learning.

### Examples

- The car accelerated when the light turned green. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accelerate/#x1)
- A ball accelerates as it rolls down a slope. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accelerate/#x2)
- Pedal harder to accelerate on your bike. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accelerate/#x3)
- Warm weather accelerates the growth of mould. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accelerate/#x4)
- The rocket accelerated into space. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accelerate/#x5)
- A runner accelerates at the start of a race. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accelerate/#x6)
- (formal) The plan was accelerated to finish sooner. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accelerate/#x7)

### Note

Spelling: double c, one l: ac-cel-er-ate. Noun: acceleration. Opposite: decelerate (slow down). In maths, speeding up from 10 m/s to 30 m/s means the speed went up by 20 m/s.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «accelerate» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accelerate/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«accelerate» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/accelerate.html) on Mova free.