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overaccelerate

overaccelerate verb: to accelerate too much.

Verb

overaccelerate (third-person singular simple present overaccelerates, present participle overaccelerating, simple past and past participle overaccelerated)

  1. (ambitransitive) To accelerate too much.
    • At the same time, all that virtual togetherness may overaccelerate a courtship.2009 June 28, Peggy Orenstein, “The Overextended Family”, in New York Times

Forms of overaccelerate

third-person singular presentoveraccelerates
present participleoveraccelerating
past participleoveraccelerated
pastoveraccelerated

Origin of overaccelerate

From over- + accelerate.

Questions about overaccelerate

What does overaccelerate mean?
Overaccelerate means to accelerate too much.
What part of speech is overaccelerate?
Overaccelerate is a verb.
What is the past tense of overaccelerate?
The past tense of overaccelerate is overaccelerated.

Words near overaccelerate in the dictionary

  1. overabundantly
  2. overabuse
  3. overabused
  4. overabuses
  5. overabusing
  6. overaccelerate
  7. overaccelerated
  8. overaccelerates
  9. overaccelerating
  10. overacceleration
  11. overaccent

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