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)

1. (transitive, intransitive) Decelerate.
   • 1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, 1993 edition, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 7:

     When the long, hot journey drew to its end and the train slowed down for the last time, there was a stir in Jessamy’s carriage.

   • 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.

Synonyms

• slow up

Antonyms

• speed up

Translations

to reduce speed

• Belarusian: запаво́льваць impf (zapavólʹvacʹ), спаво́льніць pf (spavólʹnicʹ)
• Catalan: alentir (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 減速／减速 (zh) (jiǎnsù), 减速 (zh) (jiǎnsù), 放慢 (zh) (fàngmàn)

• Czech: zpomalit (cs)
• Dutch: afremmen (nl)
• Finnish: hidastaa (fi)
• French: ralentir (fr)
• Georgian: შენელება (šeneleba)
• German: verlangsamen (de)
• Hungarian: lassít (hu), lelassít (hu)
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• Ido: lenteskar (io) (intransitive), lentigar (io) (transitive)
• Italian: rallentare (it)
• Khmer: បង្អែរបង្អង់ (bɑŋ’ae-bɑŋ’ɑŋ)
• Latin: tardō (la) (transitive), tardescō (intransitive)
• Maori: whakapūhoi
• Polish: zwalniać (pl) impf, zwolnić (pl) pf
• Portuguese: desacelerar
• Romanian: încetini (ro), decelera (rare)
• Russian: замедля́ть (ru) impf (zamedljátʹ), заме́длить (ru) pf (zamédlitʹ) (transitive), снижа́ть ско́рость impf (snižátʹ skórostʹ), сни́зить ско́рость pf (snízitʹ skórostʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: uspòriti (sh) pf, usporávati (sh) impf
• Spanish: desacelerar (es)
• Tagalog: bumagal

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