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How to pronounce “accelerate”
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Pronunciation guide for accelerate
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of accelerate with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- TED Explores: A New Climate Vision
And suddenly things accelerate and accelerate and accelerate.
- Definition summary
- (transitive) To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of.
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How to pronounce accelerate
TED Explores: A New Climate Vision

And suddenly things accelerate and accelerate and accelerate.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “accelerate”
Meaning
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of.
- (transitive) To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of.
- (transitive, physics) To cause a change of velocity.
- (transitive) To hasten, as the occurrence of an event.
- (transitive, education) To enable a student to finish a course of study in less than normal time.
- (intransitive) To become faster; to begin to move more quickly.
- (intransitive) Grow; increase.
- [Adjective]
- (archaic) Accelerated; quickened; hastened; hurried.
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