SLOWED (DOWN OR UP) Synonyms: 93 Similar and Opposite Words

slowed (down or up)

verb

past tense of slow (down or up)

as in decelerated

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In June, wholesale inflation is expected to have decelerated slightly.

— Sarah Min, CNBC, 10 July 2026
Growth rates have decelerated, and enterprise customers are consolidating vendors and scrutinizing renewal costs with new intensity.

— Marc Joffe, Oc Register, 15 May 2026

Definition of decelerated

Verb

A couple's anniversary getaway took a wild turn when a bear strolled into a Gatlinburg tea shop and began rummaging through merchandise before suddenly jumping onto the counter in a startling encounter caught on video.

— Michael Sinkewicz, FOXNews.com, 23 Aug. 2026
Julian Lucas strolled through the museum’s exhibitions to see for himself.

— Eric Klinenberg, New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of strolled

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The funding document stated that the funding would be staggered and tied to different stages of the project, such as the official announcement of filming in Madrid, the start of shooting, and that Madrid had to appear in the film’s title.

— Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 24 Aug. 2026
Darwin, by then forty-nine and not in the greatest health, was staggered.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of staggered

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The old football adage about teams making their biggest improvements between their first and second games might not apply in the NFL preseason, when personnel are constantly being shuffled in and out of the action.

— Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 21 Aug. 2026
Canden Arciniega shuffled on the hot granite terrace on a mid-August morning, counting the names on her list.

— Sophia Solano, Washington Post, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of shuffled

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Right fielder Jason Lane ambled over in time to make the catch, then didn’t.

— Stephen J. Nesbitt, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2026
Four days after the council vote, Leslie Ridings and Horton of the residents association stood outside the fenced off lot as two men with the group Vincor Construction ambled about driving stakes into the ground.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2026

Definition of ambled

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Specialists on the phone with their clients kept their paddles in the air as the bids inched higher and higher.

— Marisa Meltzer, Vanity Fair, 21 Aug. 2026
Barely an hour from the famed Angkor Wat temple complex in Siem Reap, deminers with South Korean, Swiss and American flags on their uniforms and helmets, recently inched through a minefield, clearing the land one painstaking step at a time.

— ABC News, ABC News, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of inched

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