accelerate

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

verb

1. move faster (Freq. 11)
- The car accelerated
• Syn:
speed up, speed, quicken
• Ant:
decelerate
• Derivationally related forms:
quickening (for: quicken), speed (for: speed), speedup (for: speed up), acceleratory, accelerative
• Hypernyms:
intensify, deepen
• Hyponyms:
brisk, brisk up, brisken
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
- These cars won't accelerate
2. cause to move faster (Freq. 1)
- He accelerated the car
• Syn:
speed, speed up
• Ant:
decelerate
• Derivationally related forms:
speedup (for: speed up), speed (for: speed), acceleratory, accelerative, acceleration, accelerator
• Hypernyms:
change, alter, modify
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
- Something ----s something

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