slowing

[US]/sləuiŋ/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

v. decreasing speed;
n. slowdown, deceleration.

Phrases & Collocations

slowing down

gradually slowing

slowing the pace

slowing economic growth

slowing traffic

slowing the spread

slowing down production

Example Sentences

The roadworks are slowing the traffic up in the mornings.

The car negotiated the sharp curve by slowing down.

Objective To investingate the clinical effect of Shenkang injection in treating chronic renal failure and control process of it,slowing down and decreasing the numbers of dialyses.

One is the critical slowing down at the edges of tristable region and the bifurcation, and their critical exponent is calculated;

If I could find some way of slowing my father down—he's taking on far too much work.

They also face falling roundwood quotas from pulp and paper factories, slowing peeler log demand, declining sawlog exports and increasing difficulty securing lines of credit.

The combination of rising inflation and slowing growth may bear a worrying resemblance to the stagflationary 1970s, but there has been a sea-change in advanced economies since then.

Real-world Examples

Researchers theorize that this also causes a slowing of the aging process.

Source: TED-Ed (video version)

Its population loss appears to be slowing.

Source: VOA Special English: World

What's going on? Why are we slowing down?

Source: Desperate Housewives (Audio Version) Season 1

" Relax, Bella." He rolled his eyes, still not slowing.

Source: Twilight: Eclipse

But growth rates around the world have been slowing.

Source: This month VOA Special English

Mum, why is he slowing down?

Source: Go blank axis version

Over long time scales, Earth's rotation is actually slowing down.

Source: PBS Fun Science Popularization

The RT-PCR tests are currently slowing laboratories to a crawl.

Source: Time

But NOAA says the circulation has been slowing since the mid-1990s.

Source: VOA Special English: World

You know, I think everybody can see that things are slowing down.

Source: CNN 10 Student English October 2021 Collection

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