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slow down
verb as in bog down
verb as in brake
verb as in catch one's breath
verb as in check
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verb as in cumber
verb as in decrease
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verb as in detain
verb as in drag
verb as in encumber
verb as in hamper
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verb as in hold up
verb as in impede
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verb as in laze
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verb as in lessen
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verb as in let up
verb as in loaf
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verb as in mire
verb as in obstruct
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verb as in peter out
verb as in reduce
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verb as in rein
verb as in relax
verb as in retard
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verb as in set back
verb as in slack/slacken
verb as in stall
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verb as in strike
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verb as in unwind
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verb as in weaken
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Example Sentences
As a result, a satellite passing over a higher-mass region would speed up very slightly, and slow down over a lower-mass one.
I understand why there is so much emotion, but conflating these issues will slow down progress for tens of millions of women.
If dark energy comes and goes, though, maybe the rate of expansion will slow down again.
But that knowledge does nothing to slow down the dangerously fast pace of your heart beating as you stand paralyzed in fear.
We slow down when we pass a car wreck to survey the damage, and maybe even the body count.
Surprised at being addressed in such familiar manner, I slow down my pace.
Occasionally he had to slow down to pass a vehicle moving toward Phœnix, but not often.
Then a twist of the left handle-bar caused the Comet to slow down, and he pulled back on the bit.
There had been barely time for the car to slow down a little.
But I could not run uphill for long, and soon had to slow down to a walk.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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