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slow_down
slow down
See also: slowdown
English
Verb
slow down (third-person singular simple present slows down, present participle slowing down, simple past and past participle slowed down)
- (idiomatic) Decelerate.
- 2013 June 1, “Ideas coming down the track”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 13 (Technology Quarterly):
- A “moving platform” scheme […] is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails. […] This set-up solves several problems […]. Stopping high-speed trains wastes energy and time, so why not simply slow them down enough for a moving platform to pull alongside?
- When approaching a bend in the road, slow down, and speed up after leaving it.
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to reduce speed
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