slowing (down or up)

verb

present participle of slow (down or up)
as in hanging (around or out)

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for slowing (down or up)
  1. decelerating
  2. strolling
  3. staggering
  4. fooling around
  5. ambling
  6. shuffling
  7. sauntering
  8. inching
Verb
  • 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
  • Meanwhile the buyer's own depreciation charge keeps climbing on the equipment already purchased, compressing margins into a decelerating revenue base.
    — Jason Kirsch, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of decelerating
Verb
  • In photos obtained by the Daily Mail, Martin could be seen strolling through Brentwood, Los Angeles in a fluttery white sundress.
    — Meg Walters, InStyle, 25 Aug. 2026
  • His routine includes strolling toward the mound and sometimes clapping his hands before taking the baseball.
    — Chandler Rome, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2026
Definition of strolling
Verb
  • The works depicted broken figures staggering toward the viewer in ragged uniforms — in distorted sizes, giant hands and small heads.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026
  • The works depicted broken figures staggering toward the viewer in ragged uniforms — in distorted sizes, giant hand and small heads.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 1 May 2026
Definition of staggering
Verb
  • Zeus did not approve of his daughter fooling around with this mortal roughneck hunter and put out a hit on Orion.
    — Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 8 Mar. 2026
  • The transition was rough for Ansari, who wasn’t fluent in English and often got in trouble for fooling around in school.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2026
Definition of fooling around
Verb
  • 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
  • The highway patrol’s video snippet ended with the man still holding the blades and ambling down an embankment to the highway while an officer pointed a gun at him.
    — Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of ambling
Verb
  • The bull riders—including the current champion, 20-year-old John Crimber—stand with their cowboy hat over their heart, boots shuffling nervously in the dirt.
    — Christine Lennon, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Aug. 2026
  • There must have been a hundred of us there, circling the truck, clambering onto its hood, shuffling and shimmying and twerking with abandon.
    — Taran Dugal, New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2026
Definition of shuffling
Verb
  • 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
  • Before sauntering down the stairwell to the dressing room, Stones stopped to sign autographs for fans in Inter’s pitchside hospitality suites.
    — James Horncastle, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2026
Definition of sauntering
Verb
  • Chris Bell is inching closer and closer to making his NFL debut on Friday in the Miami Dolphins’ preseason finale against the Atlanta Falcons.
    — Omar Kelly August 25, Miami Herald, 25 Aug. 2026
  • Given the city’s limited ability to enforce the fines, Rowan acknowledged uncertainty about whether speeds will begin inching back up.
    — Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of inching
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“Slowing (down or up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slowing%20%28down%20or%20up%29. Accessed 2 Sep. 2026.

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