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Adjective accelerating has 1 sense
- accelerating - increasing in speed; becoming progressively faster; "the accelerating inflation was cause for great concern"
Antonym: slow (indirect, via fast)
Verb accelerate has 2 senses
- accelerate, speed up, speed, quicken - move faster; "The car accelerated"
--1 is one way to intensify, deepen
Antonyms: decelerate, slow, slow down, slow up, retard
Sample sentence:
These cars won't accelerate
- accelerate, speed, speed up - cause to move faster; "He accelerated the car"
--2 is one way to modify, qualify
Antonyms: decelerate, slow down
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
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