accelerate vs hinder

accelerate

verb
  • To hasten, as the occurrence of an event. 

  • To become faster; to begin to move more quickly. 

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

  • Grow; increase. 

  • To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of. 

  • To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of. 

  • To cause a change of velocity. 

adj
  • Accelerated; quickened; hastened; hurried. 

hinder

verb
  • To delay or impede; to keep back, to prevent. 

  • To make difficult to accomplish; to act as an obstacle; to frustrate. 

noun
  • The buttocks. 

adj
  • Of or belonging to that part or end which is in the rear or hind, or which follows. 

How often have the words accelerate and hinder occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )