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{
"term": "accelerate",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "accelerate",
"heSheIt": "accelerates"
},
"pastSimple": "accelerated",
"pastParticiple": "accelerated",
"ingForm": "accelerating"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to happen faster or earlier; to make something happen faster or earlier",
"sensetop": "accelerate something",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Inflation continues to accelerate."
},
{
"text": "Exposure to the sun can accelerate the ageing process.",
"contextForm": "accelerate something"
},
{
"text": "Government policy has greatly accelerated the decline of the small farmer."
},
{
"text": "Population growth accelerated only after 1750."
},
{
"text": "The epidemic is accelerating dramatically."
},
{
"text": "The pace of change has begun to accelerate."
},
{
"text": "factors which may accelerate inflation"
},
{
"text": "rapidly accelerating social change"
},
{
"text": "Environmental factors can accelerate the development of certain cancers."
},
{
"text": "He vowed to intensify efforts to accelerate the structural reform of the economy."
}
],
"topics": ["Change, cause and effect"],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["dramatically", "greatly", "rapidly"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to start to go faster",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The runners accelerated smoothly around the bend."
},
{
"text": "The car accelerated to overtake me."
},
{
"text": "The car purred into life and accelerated away."
}
],
"topics": ["Physics and chemistry", "Transport by car or lorry"],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["hard", "quickly", "smoothly"]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/əkˈseləreɪt/",
"audio": "ac/accelerate/accelerate__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/əkˈseləreɪts/",
"audio": "ac/accelerate/accelerates__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/əkˈseləreɪtɪd/",
"audio": "ac/accelerate/accelerated__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/əkˈseləreɪtɪŋ/",
"audio": "ac/accelerate/accelerating__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/əkˈseləreɪt/",
"audio": "ac/accelerate/accelerate__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/əkˈseləreɪts/",
"audio": "ac/accelerate/accelerates__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/əkˈseləreɪtɪd/",
"audio": "ac/accelerate/accelerated__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/əkˈseləreɪtɪŋ/",
"audio": "ac/accelerate/accelerating__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "early 16th cent. (in the sense to make something happen faster): from Latin accelerat- ‘hastened’, from the verb accelerare, from ad- ‘towards’ + celer ‘swift’."
}