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Retard :: Retard (v. t.) To keep delaying; to continue to hinder; to prevent from progress; to render more slow in progress; to impede; to hinder; as, to retard the march of an army; to retard the motion of a ship; -- opposed to accelerate..

Hasten :: Hasten (v. t.) To press; to drive or urge forward; to push on; to precipitate; to accelerate the movement of; to expedite; to hurry.

Expedite :: Expedite (v. t.) To relieve of impediments; to facilitate; to accelerate the process or progress of; to hasten; to quicken; as, to expedite the growth of plants..

Acceleration :: Acceleration (n.) The act of accelerating, or the state of being accelerated; increase of motion or action; as, a falling body moves toward the earth with an acceleration of velocity; -- opposed to retardation..

Accelerator :: Accelerator (n.) One who, or that which, accelerates. Also as an adj.; as, accelerator nerves..

Accelerated :: Accelerated (imp. & p. p.) of Accelerat.

Accelerate :: Accelerate (v. t.) To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of; -- opposed to retard.

Advance :: Advance (v. t.) To accelerate the growth or progress; to further; to forward; to help on; to aid; to heighten; as, to advance the ripening of fruit; to advance one's interests..

Quicken :: Quicken (a.) To make lively, active, or sprightly; to impart additional energy to; to stimulate; to make quick or rapid; to hasten; to accelerate; as, to quicken one's steps or thoughts; to quicken one's departure or speed..

Accelerate :: Accelerate (v. t.) To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of; as, to accelerate the growth of a plant, the increase of wealth, etc..

Quicken :: Quicken (v. i.) To move with rapidity or activity; to become accelerated; as, his pulse quickened..

Forward :: Forward (v. t.) To help onward; to advance; to promote; to accelerate; to quicken; to hasten; as, to forward the growth of a plant; to forward one in improvement..

Accelerate :: Accelerate (v. t.) To hasten, as the occurence of an event; as, to accelerate our departure..

Strewed :: Stretto (n.) In an opera or oratorio, a coda, or winding up, in an accelerated time..

Gauge :: Gauge (n.) The quantity of plaster of Paris used with common plaster to accelerate its setting.

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