SLOWED Synonyms: 55 Similar and Opposite Words

slowed

verb

past tense of slow

as in braked

to cause to move or proceed at a less rapid pace if you don't slow your delivery down a bit, your speech will be over too soon

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Recent Examples of slowed As if Zelenskyy doesn’t have enough to keep him awake at night, an order by Elon Musk, as confirmed by The Wall Street Journal, recently slowed down the Starlink internet connection Ukraine uses. — Bob Kustra, Chicago Tribune, 22 Oct. 2026 Now 69, Pharaoh is slowed by bad knees from long years working as a chef and firefighter. — Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 22 Oct. 2026 Wynn Resorts, which caters almost exclusively to high-end customers, has opted to maintain its high room rates in Las Vegas even as visitation has slowed over the past year, rather than filling every room with travelers looking for a bargain. — Contessa Brewer,ryan Ruggiero, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2026 The amount of money generated for the district by those fees has decreased in recent years as new development has slowed. — Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 22 Oct. 2026 Rising pressure to end the war Deliveries of key Patriot interceptor missiles to Ukraine have also slowed, Ukraine has said. — Aidan Stretch, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026 That slowed in the early 1990s, though, when the Cold War’s end ushered in an era of lower Pentagon spending. — Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026 Graduate unemployment is at 23 percent, white-collar job growth has slowed to a creeping one percent this year, and nearly a quarter of Indians between the ages of 15 and 29 are not in employment, education, or training programs. — Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2026 But in recent months, as Netflix growth has slowed, so too has the aura around its original programming. — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 15 Oct. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for slowed

Verb

There were no signs the driver braked in the moments before the collision, video footage of the incident shows.

— Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2026
The driver struck Sabini with the right front corner of the Honda, braked and came to rest in the westbound lane.

— Madison Smalstig, Sacbee.com, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of braked

Verb

The finding came as revenue growth for frontier algorithm company Anthropic decelerated, falling from 140% growth in the second quarter to 45% growth in the third.

— Tobias Burns, CNBC, 19 Oct. 2026
For the second quarter of 2026, Netflix’s UCAN revenue decelerated from 14% the prior quarter to 10% (partially due to its recent price hikes).

— Todd Spangler, Variety, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of decelerated

Verb

When the chemical block was attached to the site around amino acid 300, the fiber’s growth was inhibited.

— Mike McRae October 13, New Atlas, 14 Oct. 2026
Historical discriminatory practices like redlining have inhibited homeownership for Black and Latino families across the nation dating back to the 1930s.

— Stephanie A. Dhuman, The Conversation, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of inhibited

Verb

Meanwhile, Russia's civil aviation authority, Rosaviatsia, said Friday afternoon that all four Moscow airports -- Sheremetyevo, Vnukovo, Domodedovo and Zhukovsky -- stopped flights arriving and departing for security reasons.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 24 Oct. 2026
If only the Hornets could have stopped the game after one possession apiece.

— Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 24 Oct. 2026