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What does accelerate mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word accelerate? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive) To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of.
  2. (transitive) To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of.
  3. (physics) To cause a change of velocity.
  4. (transitive) To hasten, as the occurrence of an event.
  5. (transitive, education) To enable a student to finish a course of study in less than normal time.
  6. (intransitive) To become faster; to begin to move more quickly.
  7. (intransitive) Grow; increase.
  8. (obsolete) Alternative form of accelerated
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