Accelerate

Accelerate - Other Definitions

• (v. t.) To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of; -- opposed to retard.
  
  
• (v. t.) To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of; as, to accelerate the growth of a plant, the increase of wealth, etc.
  
  
• (v. t.) To hasten, as the occurence of an event; as, to accelerate our departure.