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Resuscitate vs Accelerate - What's the difference?

resuscitate | accelerate | Related terms |

In transitive terms the difference between resuscitate and accelerate

is that resuscitate is to restore consciousness, vigor, or life to while accelerate is to hasten, as the occurrence of an event.

In intransitive terms the difference between resuscitate and accelerate

is that resuscitate is to regain consciousness while accelerate is grow; increase.

In obsolete terms the difference between resuscitate and accelerate

is that resuscitate is restored to life while accelerate is alternative form of lang=en.

resuscitate

English

Verb

(resuscitat)
  • To restore consciousness, vigor, or life to.
    • to resuscitate''' a drowned person; to '''resuscitate withered plants
  • To regain consciousness.

    • Related terms

    * resuscitable * resuscitation * resuscitative * nonresuscitable * nonresuscitation * nonresuscitative * unresuscitable * unresuscitated * unresuscitating * unresuscitative

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (obsolete) Restored to life.
    • (Bishop Gardiner)

    External links

    * * * English ergative verbs ----

    accelerate

    English

    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.
  • (label)

    • Synonyms

    * advance * dispatch * expedite * forward * further * hasten * quicken * speed up

    Antonyms

    * decelerate * retard

    Derived terms

    * accelerative * accelerator * accelerated motion * accelerating force

    Related terms

    * accelerando * accelerant * acceleration * accelerograph * accelerometer

    Adjective

  • (rare) Accelerated; quickened; hastened; hurried.
  • * 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems , Dialogue 2:
    • ... a general knowledg of the definition of motion, and of the distinction of natural and violent, even and accelerate , and the like, sufficing.

    References

    * English ergative verbs ----