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Slow down   /sloʊ daʊn/   Listen
Slow down

verb
1.
Lose velocity; move more slowly.  Synonyms: decelerate, retard, slow, slow up.  Antonym: accelerate.
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.  Antonym: accelerate.
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"  Antonym: tense.





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"Slow down" Quotes from Famous Books



... were reestablished, but again by degrees revoked. I did not doubt that speed in itself was no danger; but, when the road was about to make a sharp curve, why shouldn't Pethel, just as a matter of form, slow down slightly, and sound a note or two of the hooter? Suppose another car were—well, that was all right: the road was clear; but at the next turning, when our car neither slackened nor hooted and WAS for an instant full on the wrong side of the road, I had ...
— James Pethel • Max Beerbohm
 
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... course, we followed. A longish follow, too!—right away up to the back of Regent's Park. You know those detached houses—foot of Primrose Hill? It's one of those—he was a cute chap, my driver, and he contrived to slow down and keep well behind, and yet to see where Chestermarke got out. The name of the house is Oakfield Villa—it's on the gateposts. Of course, I made sure. I sent my man off—and then I hung round some time, passing and re-passing once or twice. And I ...
— The Chestermarke Instinct • J. S. Fletcher
 
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... each other through the girl's head, like the mechanical horses on a circular toy race course, such as she had often sold at Peter Rolls's. Round and round they wildly turned for an instant, then began to slow down. ...
— Winnie Childs - The Shop Girl • C. N. Williamson
 
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... "Slow down!" commanded Crane. "I see a submarine ahead. I thought it might be a whale at first, but it is a boat and it is what we are aiming for. You are constantly swinging with it, keeping it exactly in ...
— Skylark Three • Edward Elmer Smith
 
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... simple form, this kind of land use planning has been practiced for many years in rural America by millions of farmers, who have cooperated with one another to their own mutual benefit in soil conservation programs to reduce erosion and to slow down the wasteful and destructive runoff of precipitation. We noted earlier a pilot urban adaptation of such programs on Pohick Creek on the metropolitan fringe in Virginia, where an effort is being made to develop a whole stream basin ...
— The Nation's River - The Department of the Interior Official Report on the Potomac • United States Department of the Interior
 
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