No. 1,979 in Portuguese
acelerar
To speed up or accelerate.
In a sentence
O motorista precisa acelerar para alcançar o carro à frente.
The driver needs to accelerate to reach the car ahead.
In this sentence, 'acelerar' is used to refer to increasing the speed of a vehicle.
A equipe decidiu acelerar o processo para terminar antes do prazo.
The team decided to speed up the process to finish before the deadline.
Here, 'acelerar' is used figuratively to mean making a process proceed faster.
Durante a aula de física, aprendemos como a gravidade pode acelerar um objeto em queda livre.
During the physics class, we learned how gravity can accelerate an object in free fall.
In this case, 'acelerar' discusses the scientific concept of increasing velocity due to force.
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