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"Terms with Ukrainian translations",
"Terms with Welsh translations",
"en:Acceleration"
],
"derived": [
{
"tags": [
"noun"
],
"word": "slow-down"
},
{
"tags": [
"noun"
],
"word": "slowdownslowing-down time"
}
],
"forms": [
{
"form": "slows down",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "slowing down",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "slowed down",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "slowed down",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "*"
},
"expansion": "slow down (third-person singular simple present slows down, present participle slowing down, simple past and past participle slowed down)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"hypernyms": [
{
"source": "Thesaurus:slow down",
"word": "decrease"
}
],
"hyponyms": [
{
"source": "Thesaurus:slow down",
"word": "strike sail"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:slow down",
"tags": [
"rare"
],
"word": "unaccelerate"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"related": [
{
"source": "Thesaurus:slow down",
"word": "hinder"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:slow down",
"word": "immobilize"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:slow down",
"word": "stop"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:slow down",
"word": "move slowly"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "When approaching a bend in the road, slow down, and speed up after leaving it.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 7:",
"text": "When the long, hot journey drew to its end and the train slowed down for the last time, there was a stir in Jessamy’s carriage.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2021 October 6, Greg Morse, “A need for speed and the drive for 125”, in RAIL, number 941, page 48:",
"text": "Then came the war... and everything slowed down.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To decelerate."
],
"links": [
[
"decelerate",
"decelerate"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To decelerate."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "With a comfortable lead, the football team slowed down the tempo of the game.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2013 June 1, “Ideas coming down the track”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 13 (Technology Quarterly):",
"text": "A “moving platform” scheme[…]is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails.[…]This set-up solves several problems […]. Stopping high-speed trains wastes energy and time, so why not simply slow them down enough for a moving platform to pull alongside?",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 52:",
"text": "The elimination of vacuum-braked wagons would be slowed down, and the Western Region's flirtation with diesel-hydraulic locomotives was questioned.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To reduce the velocity, speed, or tempo of something."
],
"links": [
[
"reduce",
"reduce"
],
[
"velocity",
"velocity"
],
[
"speed",
"speed"
],
[
"tempo",
"tempo"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To reduce the velocity, speed, or tempo of something."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with usage examples",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Whoa, slow down there, bucko. Everyone will get a chance. Be patient.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To become less intense, enthusiastic, etc., usually with a positive connotation, implying that one is stripped of exaggerated or unnecessary eagerness."
],
"links": [
[
"intense",
"intense"
],
[
"enthusiastic",
"enthusiastic"
],
[
"positive",
"positive"
],
[
"connotation",
"connotation"
],
[
"exaggerated",
"exaggerated"
],
[
"unnecessary",
"unnecessary"
],
[
"eagerness",
"eagerness"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, intransitive, figuratively) To become less intense, enthusiastic, etc., usually with a positive connotation, implying that one is stripped of exaggerated or unnecessary eagerness."
],
"tags": [
"figuratively",
"intransitive",
"transitive"
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "slow up"
},
{
"word": "decelerate"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:slow down",
"tags": [
"dated"
],
"word": "cumber"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:slow down",
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "foreslow"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:slow down",
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
],
"word": "put the brakes on"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:slow down",
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
],
"word": "rein in"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:slow down",
"word": "retard"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:slow down",
"word": "slow"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:slow down",
"tags": [
"nonstandard"
],
"word": "slowen"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:slow down",
"word": "slow down"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "zapavólʹvacʹ",
"sense": "to reduce speed",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "запаво́льваць"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "spavólʹnicʹ",
"sense": "to reduce speed",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "спаво́льніць"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to reduce speed",
"word": "alentir"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to reduce speed",
"word": "descelerar"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to reduce speed",
"word": "減速"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "jiǎnsù",
"sense": "to reduce speed",
"word": "减速"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "fàngmàn",
"sense": "to reduce speed",
"word": "放慢"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to reduce speed",
"word": "zpomalit"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to reduce speed",
"word": "afremmen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to reduce speed",
"word": "hidastaa"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to reduce speed",
"word": "ralentir"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to reduce speed",
"word": "décélérer"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "šeneleba",
"sense": "to reduce speed",
"word": "შენელება"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to reduce speed",
"word": "verlangsamen"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "epivradýno",
"sense": "to reduce speed",
"word": "επιβραδύνω"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to reduce speed",
"word": "lassít"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to reduce speed",
"word": "lelassít"
},
{
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "to reduce speed",
"tags": [
"intransitive"
],
"word": "lenteskar"
},
{
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "to reduce speed",
"tags": [
"transitive"
],
"word": "lentigar"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to reduce speed",
"word": "rallentare"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to reduce speed",
"word": "decelerare"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "okuraseru",
"sense": "to reduce speed",
"word": "遅らせる"
},
{
"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "bɑŋ’ae-bɑŋ’ɑŋ",
"sense": "to reduce speed",
"word": "បង្អែរបង្អង់"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to reduce speed",
"tags": [
"transitive"
],
"word": "tardō"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to reduce speed",
"tags": [
"intransitive"
],
"word": "tardescō"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to reduce speed",
"word": "retardo"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to reduce speed",
"word": "whakapūhoi"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to reduce speed",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "zwalniać"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to reduce speed",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "zwolnić"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to reduce speed",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "spowalniać"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to reduce speed",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "spowolnić"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to reduce speed",
"word": "desacelerar"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to reduce speed",
"word": "încetini"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to reduce speed",
"tags": [
"rare"
],
"word": "decelera"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zamedljátʹ",
"sense": "to reduce speed",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "замедля́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zamédlitʹ",
"sense": "to reduce speed",
"tags": [
"perfective",
"transitive"
],
"word": "заме́длить"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "snižátʹ skórostʹ",
"sense": "to reduce speed",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "снижа́ть ско́рость"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "snízitʹ skórostʹ",
"sense": "to reduce speed",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "сни́зить ско́рость"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to reduce speed",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "uspòriti"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to reduce speed",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "usporávati"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to reduce speed",
"word": "desacelerar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to reduce speed",
"word": "decelerar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to reduce speed",
"word": "lentificar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to reduce speed",
"word": "enlentecer"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to reduce speed",
"word": "sakta"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to reduce speed",
"word": "bromsa"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "to reduce speed",
"word": "bumagal"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "upovílʹnjuvaty",
"sense": "to reduce speed",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "упові́льнювати"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "upovílʹnyty",
"sense": "to reduce speed",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "упові́льнити"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "spovílʹnjuvaty",
"sense": "to reduce speed",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "спові́льнювати"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "spovílʹnyty",
"sense": "to reduce speed",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "спові́льнити"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "to reduce speed",
"word": "arafu"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "to reduce speed",
"word": "slofi"
}
],
"word": "slow down"
}
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