slow
verb/sləʊ/
/sləʊ/
[intransitive, transitive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they slow | /sləʊ/ /sləʊ/ |
| he / she / it slows | /sləʊz/ /sləʊz/ |
| past simple slowed | /sləʊd/ /sləʊd/ |
| past participle slowed | /sləʊd/ /sləʊd/ |
| -ing form slowing | /ˈsləʊɪŋ/ /ˈsləʊɪŋ/ |
- to go or to make something/somebody go at a slower speed or be less active
- Economic growth has slowed a little.
- The bus slowed to a halt.
- He has been slowed by a knee injury.
- slow down The car slowed down as it approached the junction.
- indications that the US economy is slowing down
- You must slow down (= work less hard) or you'll make yourself ill.
- slow up The game slowed up a little in the second half.
- slow somebody/something Economic data for last month shows steps taken by the government are slowing growth.
- We hope to slow the spread of the disease.
- slow somebody/something down/up The ice on the roads was slowing us down.
- He accused the government of intentionally slowing down the process.
- Sending this file over the network to the printer may slow up the whole network.
Extra ExamplesTopics Transport by car or lorryb1- Slow down a little!
- Time seemed to slow down as she fell.
- I was nearing West Road when the traffic slowed to a crawl.
- The flow of people into the building slowed to a trickle.
- The two of them had slowed almost to a stop.
- Sales have slowed down quite markedly.
- Bill slowed his pace to allow her to catch up with him.
- Rachel tried to slow her breathing.
- She very deliberately slowed her steps.
- The roadblocks hardly slowed them at all.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- considerably
- dramatically
- markedly
- …
- begin to
- try to
- be expected to
- …
- slow to a crawl
- slow to a snail’s pace
- slow to a walk
- …
Word OriginOld English slāw ‘slow-witted, sluggish’, of Germanic origin.
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