[
  {
    "word": "accelerate",
    "phonetic": "/\u00e6k.\u02c8s\u025bl.\u0259.\u02cc\u0279e\u026at/",
    "phonetics": [
      {
        "text": "/\u00e6k.\u02c8s\u025bl.\u0259.\u02cc\u0279e\u026at/",
        "audio": ""
      },
      {
        "audio": "https://api.dictionaryapi.dev/media/pronunciations/en/accelerate-us.mp3",
        "sourceUrl": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1755062",
        "license": {
          "name": "BY-SA 3.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
        }
      }
    ],
    "meanings": [
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "verb",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "to accelerate the growth of a plant, the increase of wealth, etc."
          },
          {
            "definition": "To cause a change of velocity.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To hasten, as the occurrence of an event.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "to accelerate our departure"
          },
          {
            "definition": "To enable a student to finish a course of study in less than normal time.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To become faster; to begin to move more quickly.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "Grow; increase.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [
          "hasten",
          "quicken",
          "speed up",
          "advance",
          "forward",
          "expedite",
          "further"
        ],
        "antonyms": [
          "decelerate",
          "retard",
          "unaccelerate"
        ]
      },
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "Accelerated; quickened; hastened; hurried.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [],
        "antonyms": []
      }
    ],
    "license": {
      "name": "CC BY-SA 3.0",
      "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
    },
    "sourceUrls": [
      "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/accelerate"
    ]
  }
]