DECELERATES Synonyms: 54 Similar and Opposite Words

decelerates

verb

present tense third-person singular of decelerate

as in slows

to cause to move or proceed at a less rapid pace she decelerated the car as we entered the school zone

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Recent Examples of decelerates 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

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slows

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Stewart is trying to turn that around as consumer demand slows.

— Michael Wayland, CNBC, 29 Aug. 2026
Their low thermal conductivity slows the movement of heat into the metal underneath.

— Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 29 Aug. 2026

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