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acceleratingverbpresent participle of accelerate to become greater in size, extent, volume, amount, or numbertoy purchases accelerate dramatically during the Christmas season accumulating, appreciating, ballooning, booming, building up, burgeoning(also bourgeoning), climbing, enlarging, escalating, expanding, gaining, increasing, mounting, multiplying, mushrooming, proliferating, rising, rolling up, snowballing, spreading, swelling, waxing jumping, rocketing, skyrocketing, surgingheightening, intensifying, redoublingblowing up, bulking, distending, inflating, puffing (up)crescendoing, cresting, peaking contracting, decreasing, diminishing, dwindling, lessening, receding, waning to cause to move or proceed fast or fasterwe accelerated preparations for the hurricane upon hearing weather reports that it had gained speed bundling, fast-tracking, hastening, hurrying, quickening, rushing, speeding (up), whisking driving, goading, prodding, propelling, pushing, racing, spurring, stirring, urgingaiding, dispatching, easing, encouraging, expediting, facilitating braking, decelerating, retarding, slowing (down) delaying, encumbering, fettering, hampering, hindering, hobbling, holding back, holding up, impeding, interfering (with), manacling, reining (in), restraining, shackling, trammeling(or trammelling), tying up(or tieing up)arresting, checking, stalling, staying, stilling, stopping to make greater in size, amount, or numberthe company accelerated its advertising purchases even as the economy appeared to be in recession adding (to), aggrandizing, amplifying, augmenting, boosting, building up, compounding, enlarging, escalating, expanding, extending, hyping, increasing, multiplying, pumping up, raising, stoking, supersizing, swelling, upping booming, jumping, skyrocketing, spikingbumping (up), ratcheting (up)also racheting (up)blowing up, dilating, distending, inflatingdrawing out, elongating, fleshing (out), lengthening, prolonging, protracting, stretchingdeveloping, enhancing, heightening, intensifying, magnifyingcomplementing, supplementingbeefing (up), reinforcing(also reenforcing), strengtheningmaximizingaccumulating, amassing, collectingfollowing up, parlaying abating, decreasing, de-escalating, diminishing, downsizing, dwindling, lessening, lowering, minifying, reducing, subtracting (from) abbreviating, abridging, curtailing, shorteningcompressing, condensing, constricting, contractingcutting back, retrenching in 1661 |