- accelerate
- v1. advance, promote, further, forward, help onward, facilitate; progress, succeed, thrive, prosper, flourish, grow; develop, improve, increase, add to, augment.2. hasten, hurry, hustle, precipitate, antedate, Archaic. dispatch; expedite, speed or step up, quicken, urge on or forward, press or move forward; drive, incite, goad, spur, stimulate, energize, impel, compel, force, push on.3. speed up, increase in speed or velocity, move or go faster, Sl. jazz up; pick up, Sl. open up, skyrocket, rise; (all of an engine) gun, Sl. give the gun, race, Inf. rev up, Sl. vroom, give the gas, feed gasoline to, Sl. step on the gas, Sl. floor it.4. concentrate, intensify, compress, contract, compact; boil down, reduce, abbreviate, skim, gloss over, pass over.
A Note on the Style of the synonym finder. 2014.