slow down

Strongest matches

• halt
• hang up
• impede
• stall

Weak matches

• decelerate
• delay
• detain
• retard
• set back
• sink
• slacken
• slow up

Strongest matches

• decelerate
• impede

Strong matches

• bar
• block
• dam
• halt
• hinder
• moderate
• obstruct
• slacken
• slow
• stop

Weak match

• reduce speed

Weak matches

• breathe
• ease off
• mellow out
• recuperate
• relax
• rest
• sit down
• stop for a breath
• take a break
• take ten
• wind down

Strongest matches

• arrest
• control
• curb
• halt
• prevent
• reduce
• stop

Strong matches

• baffle
• bar
• bit
• bottleneck
• bridle
• checkmate
• choke
• circumvent
• constrain
• counteract
• delay
• discourage
• foil
• frustrate
• harness
• hold
• impede
• inhibit
• interrupt
• limit
• moderate
• neutralize
• obstruct
• obviate
• pause
• preclude
• rebuff
• repress
• repulse
• retard
• snub
• squelch
• stay
• suppress
• tame
• terminate
• thwart
• withhold

Weak matches

• cut short
• hold back
• hold down
• hold in
• keep back
• nip in the bud
• play for time
• rein in
• slacken pace

Strong matches

• burden
• delay
• encumber
• hinder
• impede
• inhibit
• load
• obstruct
• oppress
• overload
• saddle
• tax
• trouble

Weak matches

• hold back
• weigh down

Strongest matches

• abate
• curb
• curtail
• cut down
• decline
• depreciate
• deteriorate
• diminish
• drop
• drop off
• dwindle
• ease
• ebb
• fall off
• lessen
• lower
• reduce
• shrink
• sink
• slacken
• slash
• slump
• soften
• subside
• wane
• weaken

Strong matches

• check
• contract
• crumble
• decay
• degenerate
• devaluate
• droop
• evaporate
• fade
• lighten
• modify
• quell
• quiet
• restrain
• settle
• shrivel
• waste
• wither

Weak matches

• calm down
• die down
• dry up
• let up
• lose edge
• narrow down
• peter out
• run low
• slack off
• tail off
• wear away
• wear down

Strongest matches

• apprehend
• confine
• delay
• jail

Strong matches

• bust
• buttonhole
• check
• constrain
• decelerate
• hinder
• ice
• impede
• inhibit
• intern
• mire
• nab
• pinch
• reserve
• restrain
• retard
• withhold

Weak matches

• bog down
• hang up
• hold up
• pick up
• pull in
• put away
• run-in
• send up
• set back
• slow up

Strongest matches

• crawl
• creep
• hang
• shuffle

Strong matches

• dally
• dawdle
• delay
• inch
• lag
• linger
• loiter
• poke
• procrastinate
• sag
• shamble
• stagnate
• straggle
• tarry
• traipse

Weak matches

• be delayed
• be quiescent
• encounter difficulty
• lag behind
• limp along
• mark time
• put off
• trail behind

Strongest matches

• burden
• overburden

Strong matches

• block
• charge
• clog
• cramp
• discommode
• embarrass
• hamper
• hinder
• hog-tie
• impede
• incommode
• inconvenience
• lade
• load
• obstruct
• oppress
• overload
• retard
• saddle
• tax
• trammel
• weight

Weak matches

• hang up
• hold up
• make difficult
• saddle with
• weigh down

Strongest matches

• block
• curb
• frustrate
• hamstring
• hinder
• hobble
• hold up
• impede
• inconvenience
• inhibit
• obstruct
• prevent
• retard
• stymie
• thwart

Strong matches

• baffle
• balk
• bar
• bind
• check
• clog
• cramp
• cumber
• embarrass
• encumber
• entangle
• fetter
• foil
• hog-tie
• leash
• restrain
• shackle
• tie
• trammel

Weak matches

• cramp one's style
• drag one's feet
• get in the way
• hang up
• interfere with
• tie one's hands
• tie up

Strongest matches

• delay
• detain
• hinder
• impede
• interrupt
• stay
• stop
• suspend

Weak matches

• hold off
• interfere
• pause
• prorogue
• retard
• set back
• waive

Strongest matches

• block
• curb
• cut off
• delay
• deter
• disrupt
• hamper
• interfere
• retard
• slow
• stymie
• thwart

Strong matches

• bar
• brake
• check
• clog
• dam
• discomfit
• disconcert
• embarrass
• faze
• freeze
• oppose
• rattle
• restrain
• stonewall
• stop

Weak matches

• blow whistle on
• close off
• cramp one's style
• dead-end
• flag one
• hang up
• hold up
• saddle with
• shut down
• shut off

Strongest matches

• loiter
• loll
• saunter

Strong matches

• bum
• dally
• dillydally
• dream
• drift
• evade
• goldbrick
• lie
• loaf
• lounge
• malinger
• piddle
• relax
• shirk
• slack
• stall
• stroll
• trifle
• vegetate

Weak matches

• be inactive
• be indolent
• be slothful
• be unoccupied
• bum around
• do nothing
• fool around
• fritter away
• hang out
• kill time
• knock around
• let down
• lounge around
• not lift a finger
• pass time
• sit around
• stand around
• take it easy
• twiddle thumbs
• waste time
• while away hours

Strongest matches

• abate
• curtail
• decrease
• dilute
• diminish
• dwindle
• ease
• erode
• impair
• lighten
• minimize
• mitigate
• narrow
• shrink
• slacken
• taper off
• weaken

Strong matches

• abridge
• amputate
• attenuate
• clip
• close
• contract
• crop
• cut
• de-escalate
• decline
• degrade
• downsize
• drain
• minify
• moderate
• soft pedal
• taper
• thin
• truncate

Weak matches

• become smaller
• cut back
• die down
• grow less
• roll back
• slack up
• take the bite out
• take the edge off
• take the sting out
• wind down

Weak matches

• abate
• cease
• decrease
• die down
• die out
• diminish
• ease
• ease off
• ease up
• ebb
• fall
• moderate
• release
• relent
• slacken
• stop
• subside
• wane

Strongest matches

• laze
• loll

Strong matches

• bum
• dally
• dillydally
• dream
• drift
• evade
• goldbrick
• idle
• lie
• loiter
• lounge
• malinger
• piddle
• relax
• saunter
• shirk
• slack
• stall
• stroll
• trifle
• vegetate

Weak matches

• be inactive
• be indolent
• be slothful
• be unoccupied
• bum around
• fool around
• fritter away
• hang out
• kill time
• knock around
• let down
• lounge around
• not lift a finger
• pass time
• sit around
• stand around
• take it easy
• twiddle thumbs
• waste time
• while away hours

Strongest matches

• bog down
• embroil
• enmesh
• ensnare
• entangle
• flounder
• implicate
• involve
• stick
• tangle
• trap

Strong matches

• cling
• decelerate
• detain
• dirty
• entrap
• retard
• sink
• snare
• soil

Weak matches

• hang up
• set back
• slow up

Strongest matches

• block
• curb
• cut off
• hamper
• hinder
• impede
• inhibit
• interfere
• obscure
• retard
• stall
• stonewall
• stymie
• thwart

Strong matches

• arrest
• bar
• barricade
• check
• choke
• clog
• close
• congest
• crab
• fill
• frustrate
• hamstring
• hide
• interrupt
• mask
• occlude
• plug
• restrain
• sandbag
• shield
• stop
• stopper
• terminate
• throttle
• trammel

Weak matches

• dead-end
• drag one's feet
• foul up
• get in the way
• hang up
• hold up
• monkey with
• shut off
• weigh down

Strongest matches

• abate
• die out
• ebb
• evaporate
• fade
• recede
• tail away
• tail off
• taper off
• wane

Weak matches

• come to nothing
• die down
• diminish
• drain
• dry up
• fail
• give out
• lessen
• run dry
• run low
• run out
• slack off
• stop

Strongest matches

• curtail
• cut
• cut down
• diminish
• dwindle
• knock off
• lessen
• lower
• pare
• scale down
• shorten
• slash
• trim
• weaken

Strong matches

• abate
• abridge
• bankrupt
• break
• cheapen
• chop
• clip
• contract
• debase
• deflate
• depreciate
• depress
• diet
• dilute
• discount
• drain
• impair
• impoverish
• moderate
• pauperize
• rebate
• recede
• ruin
• shave
• slim
• taper
• truncate

Weak matches

• bant
• cut back
• go on a diet
• lose weight
• mark down
• nutshell
• roll back
• step down
• take off weight
• taper off
• tone down
• turn down
• wind down

Strongest matches

• curb
• repress
• restrict
• suppress

Strong matches

• bridle
• check
• collect
• compose
• cool
• halt
• hold
• limit
• smother

Weak matches

• hold back
• simmer down

Strongest matches

• ease
• loosen
• lower
• modify
• reduce
• relieve
• slow
• weaken

Strong matches

• abate
• ebb
• loose
• mitigate
• moderate
• modulate
• remit
• slack
• slacken

Weak matches

• ease off
• lax
• let up
• lose speed
• untighten

Strongest matches

• choke off
• crimp
• decelerate
• hamper
• impede
• lessen

Strong matches

• arrest
• baffle
• balk
• bog
• brake
• check
• choke
• clog
• dawdle
• decrease
• defer
• delay
• detain
• down
• encumber
• falter
• fetter
• flag
• hesitate
• loaf
• loiter
• mire
• poke
• postpone
• reduce
• slacken
• stall

Weak matches

• back off
• bog down
• bring to screeching halt
• close off
• hang up
• hold back
• hold up
• let up
• set back
• shut down
• shut off
• slow up
• take down

Weak matches

• bog down
• decelerate
• defeat
• detain
• embog
• hang up
• hold up
• impede
• mire
• retard
• reverse
• slow
• slow up

Weak matches

• abate
• decrease
• diminish
• dodge
• drop off
• dwindle
• ease
• ease off
• featherbed
• flag
• goldbrick
• goof off
• idle
• lax
• lay back
• lessen
• let up
• lie down on job
• loose
• moderate
• neglect
• reduce
• relax
• release
• shirk
• slack off
• taper
• tire
• untighten
• wane

Strongest matches

• halt
• hamper
• hinder
• interrupt
• postpone
• put off
• slow
• stay
• stop
• suspend

Strong matches

• arrest
• brake
• check
• die
• equivocate
• fence
• filibuster
• hedge
• prevaricate
• quibble
• stand
• still
• stonewall
• tarry
• temporize

Weak matches

• avoid the issue
• beat around the bush
• drag one's feet
• hold off
• not move
• play for time
• shut down
• stand off
• stand still
• take one's time

Strongest matches

• go on strike
• hit the bricks
• stage a walkout
• walk out

Strong matches

• arbitrate
• boycott
• mediate
• negotiate
• picket
• quit

Weak matches

• be on strike
• hold out
• mutiny
• refuse to work
• resist
• revolt
• tie up

Strongest matches

• sit back
• take it easy

Strong matches

• quieten
• recline
• rest

Weak matches

• calm down
• ease off
• loosen up
• quiet down
• take a break
• wind down

Strongest matches

• abate
• decline
• decrease
• depress
• dilute
• diminish
• dwindle
• halt
• impair
• lessen
• lower
• reduce
• sap
• soften
• undermine
• wane

Strong matches

• adulterate
• crumble
• cut
• debase
• debilitate
• devitalize
• droop
• enervate
• exhaust
• fade
• fail
• faint
• flag
• impoverish
• invalidate
• languish
• limp
• lose
• minimize
• mitigate
• moderate
• relapse
• relax
• temper
• thin
• tire
• totter
• tremble
• vitiate
• wilt

Weak matches

• break up
• ease up
• give way
• lose spirit
• thin out
• water down