overaccelerate
English edit
Etymology edit
over- + accelerate
Verb edit
overaccelerate (third-person singular simple present overaccelerates, present participle overaccelerating, simple past and past participle overaccelerated)
- (transitive, intransitive) To accelerate too much.
- 2009 June 28, Peggy Orenstein, “The Overextended Family”, in New York Times[1]:
- At the same time, all that virtual togetherness may overaccelerate a courtship.