SLOW (DOWN OR UP) Synonyms: 89 Similar and Opposite Words

slow (down or up)

verb

Definition of slow (down or up)

as in to decelerate

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Those comments now has Aubrey Tianello, senior analyst at BNP Paribas Equity Research, noting that investors might be expecting decelerating comp growth at both core Dick’s and Foot Locker doors.

— Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 24 Aug. 2026
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

Definition of decelerate

Verb

In 2018, the real-estate agent Glenn Rice was strolling on the beach and noticed the place.

— Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 28 Aug. 2026
Fairgoers strolling the grounds were also likely to run into House Speaker Lisa Demuth, who won the Republican primary for governor earlier this month and will face Klobuchar in November.

— Esme Murphy, CBS News, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of stroll

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In surveillance video provided by police, two young men wearing hoodies, with their hoods up, and surgical-style face masks, are seen quickly ambling down the sidewalk.

— Lincoln Anderson, New York Daily News, 23 Aug. 2026
Note that Denise is the parent who arms herself with a rifle and first shoots a dinosaur while Greg ambles around with a baseball bat.

— Peter Tonguette, The Washington Examiner, 22 Aug. 2026

Definition of amble

Verb

Travis saunters over to dap him up through the cab’s open window, but this one has its own special, age-gap flair.

— Tom Smyth, Vulture, 1 Sep. 2026
The charter Girardeau sailed with was about four miles out and almost at the its trip when word of the hammerhead was radioed out — the crew decided to take a chance and sped up the coast 15 minutes to see the shark still sauntering in the sea.

— Laylan Connelly, Oc Register, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of saunter

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As the deli’s surveillance video rolled, his client went from calmly standing at the counter with a bottle of Gatorade to staggering to the floor, clutching his leg and tearing at his pants.

— Alison J. Stein, HubSpot, 1 Sep. 2026
Biden called for reforms, too, in his final year, recommending that the Court’s Justices be limited to eighteen-year terms, staggered so that Presidents could appoint one every two years.

— Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of stagger

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For nearly a year and a half, he was shuffled around detention centers in Texas, Arizona, Louisiana and Florida, until arriving in the Alexandria International Airport in mid-August.

— Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 2 Sep. 2026
The Yankees continued to shuffle their bullpen on Monday, claiming John Schreiber.

— Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of shuffle

Verb

That, as well as other symptoms, can contribute to people with these disorders being more prone to procrastinate.

— Kristen Rogers, CNN Money, 24 Aug. 2026
According to accounts by Wright’s apprentices, after procrastinating on drawing any plans for nine months, Wright designed the house in two hours in September 1935 while the Kaufmanns were driving to his office to review them.

— Elizabeth Fazzare, Architectural Digest, 14 July 2026

Definition of procrastinate

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