Accelerate and Delay

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Accelerate

Accelerate verb - To cause to move or proceed fast or faster.
Usage example: we accelerated preparations for the hurricane upon hearing weather reports that it had gained speed
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Antonyms for Accelerate
Delay is an antonym for accelerate in topics: expedite, timing.
Nearby Words: acceleration, accelerating, accelerator, accelerant

Delay

Delay verb - To move or act slowly.
Usage example: she ordered the kids to stop delaying and to get to bed
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Synonyms for Delay
Antonyms for Delay
Accelerate is an antonym for delay in topics: hold up, send.
Nearby Words: delayed, delaying, delayer
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Common collocations

part accelerate part delay part
process accelerate process delay process
development accelerate development delay development
time accelerate time delay time
Other words: plan, effects, damage, war, plans, aging, times.

Both words in one sentence

  • Dragons Are Demonic Just about every other villain is trying to accelerate its coming or delay it by killing Hellboy (who is prophesied to wake it).
    Source: Dragons Are Demonic
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Delay and Accelerate. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 15, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/accelerate/delay
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Antonyms for accelerate


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