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Slow down   /sloʊ daʊn/   Listen
Slow down

verb
1.
Lose velocity; move more slowly.  Synonyms: decelerate, retard, slow, slow up.
2.
Become slow or slower.  Synonyms: slack, slacken, slow, slow up.
3.
Cause to proceed more slowly.  Synonyms: slow, slow up.
4.
Reduce the speed of.  Synonym: decelerate.
5.
Become less tense, rest, or take one's ease.  Synonyms: decompress, loosen up, relax, unbend, unwind.  "Let's all relax after a hard day's work"






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"Slow down" Quotes from Famous Books



... impulse was to run faster and yoo-hoo, but she thought better of it and by biting her lips and digging her fingernails, was able to slow down to a ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various

... to make Mademoiselle Therese face present terror rather than await the future; but, when the horse really did slow down to a walk, and the two girls had reached the ground in safety, she made a mighty effort, and floundered out in a heap upon the road, making so much noise that Barbara was afraid the man would realise they were gone, and insist upon their getting ...
— Barbara in Brittany • E. A. Gillie

... with a laugh. "Haven't we tried it ourselves? Two months of living upon nothing but fatted calves is more than I can stand. We shall be ready for a home for dyspeptics if you can't slow down a ...
— Brewster's Millions • George Barr McCutcheon

... gasped Snyder, who had drawn near enough to the group to overhear the last of Conductor Tobin's remarks. "The man must be crazy. Isn't there some way of making him slow down?" ...
— Cab and Caboose - The Story of a Railroad Boy • Kirk Munroe



Words linked to "Slow down" :   modify, detain, change state, diminish, vegetate, sit back, fishtail, clog, constipate, lessen, change, decrease, vege out, bog, moderate, fall, hold up, take it easy, slowdown, delay, bog down, accelerate, weaken, tense, alter, turn



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