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verb : SLOWS
Source:WordNet 3.1
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1. (
) lose velocity; move more slowly; "The car decelerated" ;
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2. (
) become slow or slower; "Production slowed" ;
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3. (
) cause to proceed more slowly; "The illness slowed him down" ;
Adjective : SLOWS
Source:WordNet 3.1
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1. (
) not moving quickly; taking a comparatively long time; "a slow walker"; "the slow lane of traffic"; "her steps were slow"; "he was slow in reacting to the news"; "slow but steady growth" ;
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2. (
) at a slow tempo; "the band played a slow waltz" ;
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3. (
) slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity; "so dense he never understands anything I say to him"; "never met anyone quite so dim"; "although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick"- Thackeray; "dumb officials make some really dumb decisions"; "he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse"; "worked with the slow students" ;
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4. (
) (used of timepieces) indicating a time earlier than the correct time; "the clock is slow" ;
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5. (
) so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; "a boring evening with uninteresting people"; "the deadening effect of some routine tasks"; "a dull play"; "his competent but dull performance"; "a ho-hum speaker who couldn't capture their attention"; "what an irksome task the writing of long letters is"- Edmund Burke; "tedious days on the train"; "the tiresome chirping of a cricket"- Mark Twain; "other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome" ;
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