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accelerates

VERB

increase speed, timing

Synonyms

STRONGEST

advance expedite further hasten open up quicken spur step up stimulate

STRONG

drive dust forward gun hurry impel precipitate railroad rev roll tool

WEAK

fire up hammer on lay a patch lay rubber make tracks nail it peel rubber put on afterburners put pedal to metal rev up speed up step on gas

Antonyms

STRONGEST

block cease check delay discourage halt hinder slow stop

STRONG

dissuade repress wait

WEAK

decelerate defer impede postpone retard slow down

Example Sentences

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Appeared in the March 20, 2026, print edition as 'Selloff in Precious Metals Accelerates'.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

Appeared in the October 22, 2025, print edition as 'Netflix Earnings Gain as Ad Business Accelerates'.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 21, 2025

“Speak In Rounds”: Accelerates through quiet throb to jangling soft-rocker, performed in courtly-Californian accents, like Sir Galahad the Pure doing Fleetwood Mac’s “The Chain.”

From Slate • Sep. 21, 2012

Fond maid'—he thinks no more on thee— He mocks at thy enduring faith; While the foul tongue of calumny Accelerates thy early death.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 481, March 19, 1831 by Various

She, to turn back her eyes afraid, Accelerates her hasty pace, But cannot anyhow evade Her shaggy myrmidon in chase.

From Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Spalding, Henry