overaccelerate
English
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From over- + accelerate.
Verb
overaccelerate (third-person singular simple present overaccelerates, present participle overaccelerating, simple past and past participle overaccelerated)
- (ambitransitive) To accelerate too much.
- 2009 June 28, Peggy Orenstein, “The Overextended Family”, in The New York Times Magazine[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 November 2022:
- At the same time, all that virtual togetherness may overaccelerate a courtship.
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