Difference between Shorten and Accelerate

SHORTEN vs ACCELERATE: ADJECTIVE

To reduce in force, efficacy, or intensity.
To make short or shorter.
To become short or shorter.
To take in (a sail) so that less canvas is exposed to the wind, thereby reducing speed.
To add shortening to (dough) so as to make flaky.

To increase the speed of: : speed.
To change the velocity of.
To cause to occur sooner than expected.
To cause to develop or progress more quickly.
To reduce the time required for (an academic course, for example); compress into a shorter period.
To make it possible for (a student) to finish an academic course faster than usual.
To move or act faster.

To make short or shorter in measure, extent, or time
To reduce or diminish in amount, quantity, or extent; to lessen; to abridge; to curtail; to contract
To take in the slack of it.
To reduce sail by taking it in.
To make deficient (as to); to deprive; -- with of.

The force which causes accelerated motion.
To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of
Motion with a continually increasing velocity.
To hasten, as the occurence of an event.
To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of; -- opposed to retard.

To make anything short: used with in in the nautical phrase to shorten in on the cable, to heave in short or shorter.
To come short; fail.
To make short or shorter; abridge; curtail: as, to shorten hours of work; to shorten the skirt of a dress.
To make appear short: as, pleasant companionship shortens a journey; a concave mirror shortens the face.
Figuratively, to make inefficient or incapable. Compare short-armed.
To take in; contract; lessen in extent or amount: as, to shorten sail; to shorten an allowance.
To check; confine; restrain.
To deprive.
To cause to come short or fail.
To make short or friable, as pastry with butter or lard.
To pronounce or measure as short: as, to shorten a vowel or syllable.
To become short or shorter; contract; diminish in length: as, ropes shorten when wet.

To become faster; increase in speed.
To bring nearer in time; bring about, or help to bring about, more speedily than would otherwise have been the case: as, to accelerate the ruin of a government; to accelerate death.
To make quicker; cause to move or advance faster; hasten; add to the velocity of; give a higher rate of progress to: as, to accelerate motion or the rate of motion; to accelerate the transmission of intelligence; to accelerate the growth of a plant, or the progress of knowledge.
To assign a date earlier than the true or real one; give an earlier date to; antedate.

Interrupt, Lessen, Expedite, Improve, Streamline, Accelerate, Bowdlerize, Bowdlerise, Expurgate, Contract, Abridge, Foreshorten, Cut, Abbreviate, Reduce

Stimulate, Rapid, Shorten, Improve, Spur, Strengthen, Intensify, Streamline, Enhance, Hasten, Facilitate, Expedite, Speed up, Speed, Quicken

Minimize, Reducing, Interrupt, Lessen, Expedite, Improve, Streamline, Accelerate, Expurgate, Contract, Abridge, Foreshorten, Cut, Abbreviate, Reduce

Stimulate, Rapid, Shorten, Improve, Spur, Strengthen, Intensify, Streamline, Enhance, Hasten, Facilitate, Expedite, Speed up, Speed, Quicken

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