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List of synonyms from "slow down" to synonyms from "slummy"


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Definition of the day : « slow up »

  • As in slack : noun looseness, excess
  • As in slowdown : noun slacking off; gradual decrease
  • As in lag : verb move slowly; delay
  • As in mire : verb delay, catch up in
  • As in retard : verb hinder, obstruct
  • As in set back : verb delay, hinder
  • As in shelve : verb defer, postpone
  • As in bog down : verb stick; become stuck
  • As in detain : verb hold, keep back; arrest
Example sentences :
  • Mr. Payton hesitated, giving the command to slow up, nevertheless.
  • Extract from : « Lucile Triumphant » by Elizabeth M. Duffield
  • “We can slow up a bit again in a few minutes,” said the stranger.
  • Extract from : « The Hilltop Boys » by Cyril Burleigh
  • You can't afford to slow up the play by waiting for your end to get to you.
  • Extract from : « Left Guard Gilbert » by Ralph Henry Barbour
  • Some one called: "Slow up there, now," and then the door opened.
  • Extract from : « Sister Carrie » by Theodore Dreiser
  • Have to slow up because the head wind is filling the scows with water.
  • Extract from : « Young Alaskans in the Far North » by Emerson Hough
  • The train began to slow up—perhaps we were to be saved, after all.
  • Extract from : « Tramping with Tramps » by Josiah Flynt
  • When in Cheyenne he was on his last legs—had begun, as they say nowadays, to slow up.
  • Extract from : « The Prairie Schooner » by William Francis Hooker
  • This caused the Confederate lines to slow up in their advance.
  • Extract from : « Lee and Longstreet at High Tide » by Helen D. Longstreet
  • You have a rotten tendency to slow up at the line, just when you should be going the hardest.
  • Extract from : « Left Half Harmon » by Ralph Henry Barbour
  • The rule for all divers, therefore, is "slow down, slow up."
  • Extract from : « The Romance of Modern Mechanism » by Archibald Williams