slow up

English

Pronunciation

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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.
   • 1976 December 18, John Gibbs, “A True Sister”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 25, page 4:

     She has been intto prison ministry work for several years and has never slowed up, but intensified her love.

   • 2018 October 17, Drachinifel, 25:13 from the start, in Last Ride of the High Seas Fleet - Battle of Texel 1918‎, archived from the original on 4 August 2022:

     Amidst all the chaos, Großer Kurfürst slows up and strikes her colors, her crew having had enough, and have^[sic] overpowered the officers - willing to fight, but not willing to commit suicide.

Synonyms

• slow, slow down, decelerate

Antonyms

• speed up, accelerate