"slow up" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-slow up.ogg [Australia] Forms: slows up [present, singular, third-person], slowing up [participle, present], slowed up [participle, past], slowed up [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} slow up (third-person singular simple present slows up, present participle slowing up, simple past and past participle slowed up)
  1. (idiomatic, colloquial) To slow; to slow down; to decelerate. Tags: colloquial, idiomatic Synonyms: slow, slow down, decelerate
    Sense id: en-slow_up-en-verb-evApabOR Categories (other): English phrasal verbs with particle (up)

Inflected forms

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