slowen

English

Etymology

From slow +‎ -en.

Verb

slowen (third-person singular simple present slowens, present participle slowening, simple past and past participle slowened)

1. (transitive, intransitive, nonstandard) To make or become slow
   • 1880, Sir Frank Crisp, Francis Jeffrey Bell, Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society:

     Muscarin has a similar action to nicotine on the chromatophorcs, but the effect is not so well marked; it would appear to slowen the circulation and to increase the secretions.

   • 1881, Transactions of the 1st, 2nd, 4th-17th Congress, volume 1, page 509:

     The action of atropia is of the same nature upon both the nerve cells and muscular substance — viz., to slowen the nutritive processes in both, and therefore is exactly the reverse of the action of the vagus in both cases.

   • 1992, Indian Journal of Applied Psychology, volumes 29-30, page 3:

     Similarly, there is an increasing interest in potions and plant extracts from the science of ayurveda, preparations that have been listed to slowen the deleterious process of aging.

   • 1998, Tadashi Yoshida, Hiroki Oka, Tōhoku Daigaku, Facets of transformation of the Northeast Asian countries:

     However, the principal industries (light industry, electricity production and others) suffered a continuous decline and ... less in December, 1997 than a year before. ln 1998, rates of industrial tangibly slowened down […]

Anagrams

• Enlows, lownes, nowels

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English slow.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsloː.ʋə(n)/

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• Hyphenation: slo‧wen
• Rhymes: -oːʋən

Verb

slowen

1. to slow dance

Inflection

Conjugation of slowen (weak)
infinitive	slowen
past singular	slowde
past participle	geslowd
infinitive	slowen
gerund	slowen n
	present tense	past tense
1st person singular	slow	slowde
2nd person sing. (jij)	slowt	slowde
2nd person sing. (u)	slowt	slowde
2nd person sing. (gij)	slowt	slowde
3rd person singular	slowt	slowde
plural	slowen	slowden
subjunctive sing.1	slowe	slowde
subjunctive plur.1	slowen	slowden
imperative sing.	slow
imperative plur.1	slowt
participles	slowend	geslowd
1) Archaic.