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accelerates
verb as in increase speed, timing
Example Sentences
This toxic assault accelerates aging and stimulates decline in body chemicals, leaving our immune systems defenseless.
Baucus's retirement both alters and accelerates that process.
And once you're paying more than 50%, the burden accelerates pretty fast.
If the warming accelerates more dramatically, and the polar ice melts even faster, the results could be catastrophic.
Instead, the narrator only accelerates after Albertine's death his ferocious investigations of her suspected lesbian love affairs.
Draining accelerates the disintegration of the mineral matters in the soil, by admitting water and oxygen to keep up the process.
The dung, by a kind of fermentation, accelerates the oxidizement, and hence crude oil is preferable to pure.
The heat given to the dung-bath accelerates this combination, and determines an insoluble and perfectly inert coagulum.
The light brings about or accelerates a chemical reaction which follows the Bunsen-Roscoe law.
If the board is going fast enough, the wave accelerates it, and the board begins its quarter-of-a-mile slide.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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