Meanings
present singular third person outaccelerates · participle present outaccelerating · participle past outaccelerated · past outaccelerated
- transitiveTo accelerate faster than.
The car company's new model easily outaccelerates the competition.
2 more examples
"So right after this, he gets back on his bike, opens the throttle and roars off, the open road rushing out like a ribbon, his speed topping out at, oh, I don't know. How fast can a Harley go? Mr. Waldburger?" ¶ "Fast as you want it, big machine outaccelerates an F-16 on the runway," says Mr. Waldburger with the kind of easy confidence he never displays in talking about the calculus.
1995, David Berlinski, A Tour of the Calculus, New York, N.Y.: Pantheon Books, →ISBN, page 204you cannot outaccelerate me
2022 June 24, @sama [Sam Altman], Twitter, archived from the original on 18 Nov 2023
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*úd
- Proto-Germanic*ūt
- Proto-Germanic*ūt-
- Old Englishūt-
- Middle Englishut-
- Englishout-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂éd
- Proto-Italic*ad
- Proto-Italic*ad-
- Latinad-
- Proto-Indo-European*kel-
- Latinceler
- Latincelerō
- Latinaccelerō
- Latinaccelerātu
- Latinaccelerō
- Latinaccelerātiō
- Englishaccelerationbf.
- Englishaccelerate
- Englishoutaccelerate
From out- + accelerate.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
outaccelerate. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/outaccelerate
“outaccelerate.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/outaccelerate. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “outaccelerate,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/outaccelerate.
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