accelerate
verbVerb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they accelerate | |
| he / she / it accelerates | |
| past simple accelerated | |
| past participle accelerated | |
| -ing form accelerating |
- [intransitive, transitive]
to happen faster or earlier; to make something happen faster or earlier （使）加速，加快 Inflation continues to accelerate. 通货膨胀不断加速。 - accelerate something
Exposure to the sun can accelerate the ageing process. 暴露在日光下会加快老化过程。
Extra ExamplesTopics Change, cause and effectc1Government policy has greatly accelerated the decline of the small farmer. 政府的政策大大加速了小农的衰落。 Population growth accelerated only after 1750. 人口增长仅在1750年后加速。 The epidemic is accelerating dramatically. 该流行病正以惊人的速度蔓延。 The pace of change has begun to accelerate. 变革的步伐已经开始加快。 factors which may accelerate inflation 可能加速通货膨胀的因素 rapidly accelerating social change 快速加速的社会变革 Environmental factors can accelerate the development of certain cancers. 环境因素可能会加快某些癌症的发展。 He vowed to intensify efforts to accelerate the structural reform of the economy. 他誓言要加大努力，加快经济结构改革。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- dramatically
- greatly
- rapidly
- …
- [intransitive]
(of a vehicle or person 车辆或人 to start to go faster 加速；加快 The runners accelerated smoothly around the bend. 赛跑运动员在转弯处顺势加速。 The car accelerated to overtake me. 那辆汽车加速超过了我。 The car purred into life and accelerated away. 那辆轿车轰隆隆地发动起来，然后加速开走了。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- hard
- quickly
- smoothly
- …
opposite decelerate
Word Originearly 16th cent. (in the sense to make something happen faster): from Latin accelerat- ‘hastened’, from the verb accelerare, from ad- ‘towards’ + celer ‘swift’.