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Definition of Slow up

1. Verb. Become slow or slower. "Production slowed"

2. Verb. Cause to proceed more slowly. "The illness slowed him down"

3. Verb. Lose velocity; move more slowly. "The car decelerated"

Definition of Slow up

1. Verb. (idiomatic colloquial) To slow, slow down, decelerate. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Slow Up

slow lane slow loris slow match slow motion slow muscle slow news day slow out slow oven slow ovens slow pyrolysis

slow ray slow reacting substance of anaphylaxis slow roll slow scan slow time scale slow up (current term) slow virus diseases slowback slowbacks slowball

slowcoach slowcoaches slowcore slowdown slowdowns slowed slower

Literary usage of Slow up

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Reports of Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of California by Bancroft-Whitney Company, California, Supreme Court, California Supreme Court (1913)
"Not being ahead of time, there was no occasion for it to slow up. ... If the engineer were allowed to modify the speed and slow up his train at will to ..."

2. Negligence: Rules--decisions--opinions by Edward Beers Thomas (1904)
"... negligent in failing to slow up or stop, where, up to the last moment, the driver had control of them Flaherty v. Harrison, !)8 Wis. 559. XIII. ..."

3. The American and English Railroad Cases: A Collection of All Cases in the by Lawrence Lewis, Adelbert Hamilton, John Houston Merrill, William Mark McKinney, James Manford Kerr, John Crawford Thomson (1885)
"To " slow up " in any given case must be sucli a slowing up as the particular exigency ... To slow up and keep a sharp lookout for an expected or possible ..."

4. Scarborough's Official Tour Book by New York State Automobile Association (1918)
"Cemetery on right. iron Slow. Up steep hill 0.2 mile. Slow. Up hill, then right fork down hill, then straight ahead. Slow. Up steep hill 0.4 mile. ..."

5. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1905)
"slow up. To "slow up" a train means to diminish ¡ta speed, the extent of ... To "slow up" in any given case must be such slowing up as the particular ..."

6. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1890)
"Kline then came down the ladder and said to the plaintiff that he would go and slow up the engine, and that plaintiff should then put on the belt. ..."

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