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Decelerate   /dɪsˈɛlərˌeɪt/   Listen
Decelerate

verb
1.
Lose velocity; move more slowly.  Synonyms: retard, slow, slow down, slow up.  Antonym: accelerate.
2.
Reduce the speed of.  Synonym: slow down.  Antonym: accelerate.






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"Decelerate" Quotes from Famous Books



... marvelled that this frail, kindly, stooping old man, with his look of innocence that was almost sublime, could in reality be a giant in the world of money. Such was the case. Mr. Hilbert Torrington had his fingers on the financial pulse of the world and at a pressure could accelerate or decelerate it, to suit his mood. Unlike Cassis, Mr. Torrington had time for everything. When he worked he worked instantaneously, achieving in an hour work that would have kept a less remarkable man busy for a month. After one of these flashes he would relapse into pleasant ...
— Men of Affairs • Roland Pertwee

... headlamp gave me the kind of light I was used to working with. The sector I wanted was on the satellite's dark side. I had to clamp on to the girdle and jet quite a while to turn it halfway round, and then decelerate just as long to bring it to a stop. I fooled around several minutes getting the sector to face where ...
— The Trouble with Telstar • John Berryman

... line here, please, and decelerate, so that the stuff'll catch up with us, and pass the word to the lookouts. Stevens and I will take ...
— Spacehounds of IPC • Edward Elmer Smith



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