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词汇 slowed
释义 slowed
past simple and past participle ofslow
slow
verb[ I or T ]
uk /sləʊ/ us /sloʊ/
C2
to reduce speed or activity, or to make something do this: (使)减速;(使)放慢速度;(使)减缓
Business development has slowed in response to the recession.因为经济不景气,企业发展减缓了速度。
slow to a crawlTraffic slows to a crawl (= goes so slowly it almost stops) during rush hour.高峰时期,车辆行驶速度跟蜗牛爬似的。
The pilot was asked to slow his approach to the runway.飞行员被要求减速接近跑道。
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to get slower
slow downA car slowed down and stopped beside her.
slowEconomic growth slowed sharply in the spring.
decelerateShe decelerated as soon as she saw the police vehicle.
lose speedAs the car ran out of petrol, we lost speed and rolled to a stop.
Manufacturing activity slowed for the fourth consecutive month in November.
Economic growth has slowed sharply in recent months.
Her illness has slowed her somewhat.
The economy has slowed enough for some analysts to predict a recession.
The early evening rush hour slowed my return to Richmond Road.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Increasing and decreasing speed of motion
accelerant
accelerate
accelerating
acceleration
accelerative
brake
catch
catch (someone) up
gun
isolator
non-accelerating
pickup
put your foot downidiom
quicken
retard
speed (something) up
spurt
step on the gasidiom
throttle (something) back/down
upshift

Idioms


slow someone's roll
slow your roll

Phrasal verbs


slow (someone/something) down/up
slow down

Examples of slowed


slowed

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


The remaining joints will be slowed proportional to the slow joint motion.
Rate of taper could be slowed once for every 3-day decrement if re-emergent symptoms were too severe for patients to go on.
A significant linear trend was found, whereas quadratic and cubic trends, which would have indicated slowed or arrested development, were not significant.
Frailty manifests the following core clinical features: loss of strength, weight loss, low levels of activity, poor endurance or fatigue, and slowed performance.
While on the one hand microbial growth and metabolic rates can be slowed down at low temperatures, physiochemical processes may also contribute to lower rates.
Because of the slowed transit through the bowel, overeating leads to nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea.
This population of children experiences slowed phonological development in the absence of other concomitant linguistic, cognitive, motor, or social lags.
Sometimes, they are drastically slowed down, or (perhaps) even temporarily suspended.
First, rewriting is strongly slowed down because of the necessary equality tests.
Synesthetically inspired by floating visions - imagery slowed down to artificial sound and found soundscape objects.
From 1963 to 1968, the building programmes slowed and less new private housing was available, particularly for those with lower incomes.
The month after the election, the money supply slowed down.
This, combined with lower temperatures for the remainder of the experiment, seems to have slowed the rate of recapture of released insects.
Overall, the natural-rate stimuli in this experiment were rated as more comprehensible than the slowed stimuli, though no differences in perceived accentedness occurred.
Indeed, they (2003b) assert that the market is more stable than in recent years and price increases have slowed.
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