accelerated
v.v. to make something happen faster or move more quickly. You use this when talking about speed, growth, or finishing a project sooner than expected.
v. to increase the speed or rate of progress of an action or process. Transitive when describing an external force causing the change; intransitive when describing the subject's own increase in velocity.
The driver accelerated to pass the slow truck.
The government introduced new tax breaks to help the company accelerated its expansion into international markets.
Technological breakthroughs in the late twentieth century significantly accelerated the pace of global communication, effectively shrinking the perceived distance between disparate cultures.
The verb can be used transitively with a direct object or intransitively without one.
The car was accelerated very fast.The car accelerated very fast.When describing a vehicle increasing its own speed, the verb is typically used intransitively in the active voice rather than the passive.