accelerates

The word “accelerates” has 4 syllables: ac-cel-er-ates

It's pronounced as /əkˈsɛləˌreɪts/


What is synonym and antonym for accelerates?

In the thesaurus, “accelerates” has 23 synonyms and 26 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for accelerates along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for accelerates

  • advance
  • augments
  • boosts
  • encourages
  • expands
  • expedite
  • extends
  • further
  • hasten
  • hastens
  • hurries
  • increases
  • open up
  • pushes
  • quicken
  • quickens
  • rises
  • rushes
  • spur
  • step up
  • stimulate
  • swells
  • urges

Antonyms for accelerates

  • abates
  • block
  • brakes
  • cease
  • check
  • decelerates
  • decreases
  • delay
  • diminishes
  • discourage
  • downsizes
  • dwindles
  • halt
  • hinder
  • hinders
  • impedes
  • lessens
  • lowers
  • recedes
  • reduces
  • restrains
  • retards
  • shortens
  • slow
  • stop
  • wanes

Meanings of accelerates

  • verb
    1. To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of.
    2. To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of.
    3. To cause a change of velocity.
    4. To hasten, as the occurrence of an event.
    5. To enable a student to finish a course of study in less than normal time.
    6. To become faster; to begin to move more quickly.
    7. Grow; increase.

Example Sentences

  • The engine accelerates quickly when you press the gas pedal.
  • The new software accelerates the data processing significantly.
  • As the sun rises, the wind accelerates across the open fields.
  • Regular exercise accelerates your metabolism and improves health.
  • The government accelerates funding for renewable energy projects.

On this page you'll find 49 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to accelerates, such as: abates, advance, augments, block, boosts, brakes, cease.

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balloons

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  • bags
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  • expand
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  • inflate
  • mushrooms
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  • projects
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  • rises
  • stands out
  • swell
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eases

  • abates
  • abbreviates
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  • abridges
  • accelerates
  • advances
  • aids
  • allays
  • alleviates
  • alleviations
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  • appeasements
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  • collapses
  • comforts
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  • condenses
  • constricts
  • contracts
  • corrects
  • crops
  • cures
  • curtails
  • cuts
  • cuts back
  • cuts down
  • de-escalates
  • declines
  • decreases
  • deflates
  • dents
  • depletes
  • detaches
  • diminishes
  • diminishments
  • disentangles
  • docks
  • downscales
  • downsizes
  • drops
  • dwindles
  • ebbs
  • emends
  • enhances
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  • evaporates
  • expedites
  • facilitates
  • falls
  • falls away
  • fixes
  • flags
  • forwards
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  • gives out
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  • heals
  • helps
  • hurries
  • improves
  • knocks down
  • lessens
  • lets up
  • lightens
  • loosens
  • lowers
  • meliorates
  • mends
  • minimizes
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  • moderates
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  • mollifications
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  • nicks
  • palliates
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  • phases down
  • promotes
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  • recedes
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  • reduces
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  • retrenches
  • rushes
  • shortens
  • shrinks
  • simplifies
  • sinks
  • slackens
  • slacks
  • slashes
  • smoothes
  • smooths
  • softens
  • soothes
  • speeds
  • streamlines
  • subsides
  • tapers
  • tapers off
  • tempers
  • trims
  • truncates
  • unbinds
  • unclogs
  • undoes
  • unfastens
  • untangles
  • unties
  • vanishes
  • wanes
  • weakens
  • whittles

facilitates

  • abets
  • accelerates
  • advances
  • aid
  • aids
  • assists
  • disentangles
  • ease
  • eases
  • expedite
  • expedites
  • forward
  • forwards
  • further
  • furthers
  • grease the wheels
  • greases
  • hand-carry
  • hastens
  • help
  • helps
  • hurries
  • improves
  • make easy
  • open doors
  • promote
  • promotes
  • quickens
  • run interference for
  • rushes
  • simplifies
  • simplify
  • smooth
  • smoothes
  • smooths
  • speed
  • speed up
  • speeds
  • streamlines
  • unclogs
  • untangles
  • walk through

gains

  • accelerates
  • accomplishes
  • accrues
  • accumulates
  • achieves
  • acquires
  • allures
  • amasses
  • annexes
  • appreciates
  • approaches
  • argues
  • assets
  • attains
  • attracts
  • avails
  • bags
  • balloons
  • bankroll
  • beats
  • beguiles
  • benefits
  • blandishes
  • blarneys
  • blows up
  • booms
  • boosts
  • bottom line
  • bourgeons
  • brainwashes
  • brings
  • brings around
  • brings in
  • builds up
  • bulks
  • burgeons
  • cajoles
  • capital
  • captures
  • carries
  • cash
  • cash flow
  • catches
  • chalks up
  • chews over
  • clears
  • climbs
  • coaxes
  • coffers
  • comes around
  • comes back
  • comes by
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  • comes to
  • commission
  • compensation
  • convalesces
  • converses
  • converts
  • convinces
  • crescendoes
  • crests
  • debates
  • discusses
  • disputes
  • distends
  • dividends
  • drawings
  • draws
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  • elevates
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  • entices
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  • equals
  • escalates
  • excels
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  • exhorts
  • expands
  • extends
  • fast-talks
  • finances
  • funds
  • garners
  • gathers
  • gets
  • gravy
  • gross
  • grosses
  • harvest
  • heals
  • heightens
  • hits
  • honorarium
  • improves
  • in the black
  • inclines
  • income
  • increases
  • induces
  • inflates
  • influences
  • intensifies
  • interest
  • interests
  • jumps
  • killing
  • knocks down
  • lands
  • leads on
  • livelihood
  • logs
  • lures
  • makes
  • matches
  • maximizes
  • means
  • meets
  • mends
  • money
  • moots
  • mounts
  • moves
  • multiplies
  • mushrooms
  • net
  • nets
  • obtains
  • occupies
  • outdoes
  • overpersuades
  • pay
  • payoff
  • peaks
  • persuades
  • picks up
  • pocket
  • pocketbook
  • proceeds
  • procures
  • profit
  • proliferates
  • prompts
  • pulls down
  • pulls round
  • pulls through
  • racks up
  • rallies
  • reacquires
  • realizes
  • reaps
  • reattains
  • recaptures
  • receipts
  • recoups
  • recovers
  • recruits
  • recuperates
  • redoubles
  • regains
  • remakes
  • resources
  • return
  • returns
  • revenue
  • revives
  • rings up
  • rises
  • rivals
  • rockets
  • rolls up
  • royalty
  • salary
  • satisfies
  • scores
  • secures
  • seduces
  • sells
  • skyrockets
  • snaps back
  • snowballs
  • snows
  • spreads
  • steps up
  • stimulates
  • surges
  • surpasses
  • survives
  • sways
  • swells
  • take-home
  • take-home pay
  • takes over
  • tempts
  • ties
  • tips
  • tops
  • touches
  • urges
  • wage
  • wages
  • waxes
  • wheedles
  • wherewithal
  • windfall
  • wins
  • yield

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