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List of antonyms from "deceiving" to antonyms from "deciduous"


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Definition of the day : « decelerate »

  • verb slow down
Example sentences :
  • "We'll start to decelerate in about ten minutes," O'Brine said.
  • Extract from : « Rip Foster in Ride the Gray Planet » by Harold Leland Goodwin
  • They could decelerate it at a rate of fifteen gravities or more.
  • Extract from : « Space Tug » by Murray Leinster
  • Copeland worked the jury-rigged controls of the jet, continuing to decelerate.
  • Extract from : « Comet's Burial » by Raymond Zinke Gallun
  • Its motor is designed to decelerate that mass by 1,075 mph in order to allow it to assume a descending orbit.
  • Extract from : « Far from Home » by J.A. Taylor
  • They went in fast, using her gravity to help them curve into a forced orbit as they strained to decelerate.
  • Extract from : « Tulan » by Carroll Mather Capps
  • Arcot accelerated toward the planet for two hours, then began to decelerate.
  • Extract from : « Islands of Space » by John W Campbell
  • If anything of the right size shows up, decelerate until we can get mass and albedo measurements.
  • Extract from : « Rip Foster in Ride the Gray Planet » by Harold Leland Goodwin
  • Every so often comes the impression we are falling head-first; the colonel using ship's drive to decelerate the whole system.
  • Extract from : « The Lost Kafoozalum » by Pauline Ashwell