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Adjective accelerating has 1 sense
  1. 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
  1. 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
  2. accelerate, speed, speed up - cause to move faster; "He accelerated the car"
    --2 is one way to modify, qualify
    Antonyms: decelerate, slow down
    Derived forms: noun acceleration1, noun acceleration2, noun accelerator1, noun accelerator2
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s somebody
    Something ----s somebody
    Something ----s something
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