verb
1 go faster
ADVERB
▪ hard , quickly
▪ smoothly
▪
The runners ~d smoothly around the bend.
▪ suddenly
▪ away ( esp. BrE )
▪
The car purred into life and ~d away.
2 develop quickly
ADVERB
▪ dramatically , greatly , rapidly , sharply
▪
The epidemic is accelerating dramatically.
▪ significantly
Accelerate is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑ car
Accelerate is used with these nouns as the object: ↑ decline , ↑ development , ↑ effort , ↑ growth , ↑ implementation , ↑ innovation , ↑ integration , ↑ introduction , ↑ process , ↑ progress , ↑ progression , ↑ rate , ↑ recovery , ↑ reform , ↑ transformation