Antonyms for slow up

Grammar : Noun, verb

Spell : sloh

Phonetic Transcription : sloʊ

Definition of slow up

Origin : Old English slaw "inactive, sluggish, torpid, lazy," also "not clever," from Proto-Germanic *slæwaz (cf. Old Saxon sleu "blunt, dull," Middle Dutch slee, Dutch sleeuw "sour, tart, blunt," Old High German sleo "blunt, dull," Old Norse sljor, Danish sløv, Swedish slö "blunt, dull"). Meaning "taking a long time" is attested from early 13c. Meaning "dull, tedious" is from 1841. As an adverb c.1500. The slows "imaginary disease to account for lethargy" is from 1843.

As in slack : noun looseness, excess
As in slowdown : noun slacking off; gradual decrease
As in lag : verb move slowly; delay
As in mire : verb delay, catch up in
As in retard : verb hinder, obstruct
As in set back : verb delay, hinder
As in shelve : verb defer, postpone
As in bog down : verb stick; become stuck
As in detain : verb hold, keep back; arrest

Example sentences :

Mr. Payton hesitated, giving the command to slow up, nevertheless.
Extract from : « Lucile Triumphant » by Elizabeth M. Duffield

“We can slow up a bit again in a few minutes,” said the stranger.
Extract from : « The Hilltop Boys » by Cyril Burleigh

You can't afford to slow up the play by waiting for your end to get to you.
Extract from : « Left Guard Gilbert » by Ralph Henry Barbour

Some one called: "Slow up there, now," and then the door opened.
Extract from : « Sister Carrie » by Theodore Dreiser

Have to slow up because the head wind is filling the scows with water.
Extract from : « Young Alaskans in the Far North » by Emerson Hough

The train began to slow up—perhaps we were to be saved, after all.
Extract from : « Tramping with Tramps » by Josiah Flynt

When in Cheyenne he was on his last legs—had begun, as they say nowadays, to slow up.
Extract from : « The Prairie Schooner » by William Francis Hooker

This caused the Confederate lines to slow up in their advance.
Extract from : « Lee and Longstreet at High Tide » by Helen D. Longstreet

You have a rotten tendency to slow up at the line, just when you should be going the hardest.
Extract from : « Left Half Harmon » by Ralph Henry Barbour

The rule for all divers, therefore, is "slow down, slow up."
Extract from : « The Romance of Modern Mechanism » by Archibald Williams

Synonyms for slow up

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