Verb

(accelerat)

(label) To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of.

(label) To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of.

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To cause a change of velocity.

(label) To hasten, as the occurrence of an event.

To enable a student to finish a course of study in less than normal time.

(label) To become faster; to begin to move more quickly.

(label) Grow; increase.

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Verb

(straggl)

To stray from the road, course or line of march.

He straggled away from the crowd and went off on his own.

To wander about; ramble.

* L'Estrange

The wolf spied out a straggling kid.

To spread at irregular intervals.

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To escape or stretch beyond proper limits, as the branches of a plant; to spread widely apart; to shoot too far or widely in growth.

* Mortimer

Trim off the small, superfluous branches on each side of the hedge that straggle too far out.

To be dispersed or separated; to occur at intervals.

* Sir Walter Scott

straggling pistol shots

* Sir Walter Raleigh

They came between Scylla and Charybdis and the straggling rocks.