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accelerated

Variant of accelerate

transitive verb accelerated, accelerating

  1. to increase the speed of
  2. to cause to develop or progress more quickly
  3. Physics to cause a change in the velocity of (a moving body)
  4. to cause to happen sooner

intransitive verb

to go, progress, or develop faster

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