acelerar

• acelarar (misspelling)

Learned borrowing from Latin accelerāre.

• Hyphenation: a‧ce‧le‧rar

acelerar (first-person singular present acelero, first-person singular preterite acelerei, past participle acelerado)

1. (transitive, intransitive) to accelerate (to increase speed or acquire speed, become swift)
2. (reflexive) to hurry up
3. (transitive) to advance
4. (transitive) to shorten (to reduce the time of)

• “acelerar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “acelerar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “acelerar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

• acelarar (misspelling)
• accelerar (archaic)

Borrowed from Latin accelerāre (“to hasten, to accelerate”).

• IPA^(key): /aθeleˈɾaɾ/ [a.θe.leˈɾaɾ] (Spain, Equatorial Guinea)
• IPA^(key): /aseleˈɾaɾ/ [a.se.leˈɾaɾ] (Latin America, Philippines)

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: a‧ce‧le‧rar

acelerar (first-person singular present acelero, first-person singular preterite aceleré, past participle acelerado)

1. (transitive, reflexive) to accelerate (to cause to move faster)

   Antonym: desacelerar

2. (intransitive) to hurry up
   • 2025 May 12, Manuel Viejo, quoting Isabel Díaz Ayuso, “Ayuso, sobre el Congreso del PP que se celebrará en julio: “En el momento en el que hay runrún, conviene””, in El País‎^[1], Madrid: Ediciones El País, S.L., →ISSN, archived from the original on 12 May 2025:

     “En el momento en el que hay runrún conviene, pero solo le compete a la dirección nacional. Ahora que ha empezado el runrún sí que hay que acelerarlo porque si no, al final, pues opina aquí todo el mundo menos los protagonistas. Estaremos a la altura”.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• “acelerar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
• “acelerar”, in Tesoro de los diccionarios históricos de la lengua española [Thesaurus of the Historical Dictionaries of the Spanish Language], Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], launched 2021