accelerate
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Sense: Verb: increase physical speed
Synonyms:
speed up, go faster, move faster, pick up speed, pick up the pace, step on it , quicken, get going , hasten Collocations, put the pedal to the metal
Sense: Verb: make process faster
Synonyms:
speed up, rush Collocations, hurry up, hurry sth along, hasten Collocations, expedite Collocations, precipitate, fast-track, urge Collocations, urge forward, push through, get a move on , get a shift on , stimulate
Sense: Verb: intensify efforts
Synonyms:
speed up, increase Collocations, boost, intensify, expand Collocations, compound Collocations, amplify, redouble, step up, up Collocations , ramp up, beef up , rev up
Sense: Verb: increase in number or extent
Synonyms:
increase Collocations, escalate Collocations, balloon Collocations, mushroom Collocations, snowball, climb Collocations, grow Collocations, rise Collocations, swell Collocations, boom Collocations, build up, gain Collocations
Sense: Verb: stimulate a chemical reaction
Synonyms:
stimulate, intensify, catalyze, catalyse , act as a catalyst for