SLOWS Synonyms: 54 Similar and Opposite Words

slows

verb

present tense third-person singular of slow

as in brakes

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 slows The rhythm slows overall alcohol intake without forcing anyone to opt out of the social ritual around them. — Hanna Wickes, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Aug. 2026 The Diffit extension removes much of the copying, uploading, and reformatting that slows down the AI workflow. — Dan Fitzpatrick, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2026 If the pipeline of new data centers slows, computing power will be constrained, and investors will (further) question whether the market has legs. — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 20 Aug. 2026 As air occupies most of this porous network, heat transfer slows, allowing the aerogel to demonstrate low thermal conductivity in lab tests and proving its potential as an ultra-lightweight thermal insulator. — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 19 Aug. 2026 In fact, some common savory foods digest even faster than desserts like ice cream or chocolate, which often contain fat that slows digestion. — Brittany Poulson, Verywell Health, 19 Aug. 2026 Cutting back is done in mid-summer when foliage looks ragged and blooming slows to increase plant vigor, control height, and encourage a second flush of blooms. — Mary Marlowe Leverette, The Spruce, 19 Aug. 2026 Once the decision is made, continuing to relitigate it creates confusion, erodes trust, and slows execution. — Johnny C. Taylor Jr, USA Today, 11 Aug. 2026 This slows the outcome for the ER patient, and reduces the crisis team’s capacity to serve those in the community, Hahn said. — Steve Scauzillo, Daily News, 11 Aug. 2026

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This inhibits collective action because each country, offered selective relief in some cases, has reason to cut its own deal rather than hold the line with the others.

— Kurt M. Campbell, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026
All the existing independent research on AI and the brain suggests that AI use inhibits our ability to learn .

— Kaliris Salas-Ramirez, New York Daily News, 16 Aug. 2026

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That works beautifully during the build-out and gets ugly at exactly the moment growth decelerates, because that's when the depreciation from peak spending years hits an income statement that's no longer growing into it.

— Jason Kirsch, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026
Sorge said that this class of space debris decelerates quicker, and also once on the surface the pieces are also more recognizable than broken up chunks of metal.

— Leonard David, Space.com, 22 July 2026