Definition of Slowed

1. Verb. (past of slow) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Slowed

1. slow [v] - See also: slow

Lexicographical Neighbors of Slowed

slow scan
slow time scale
slow up
slow virus diseases
slowback
slowbacks
slowball
slowcoach
slowcoaches
slowcore
slowdown
slowdowns
slowed (current term)
slower
slowers
slowest
slowgoing
slowing
slowings
slowish
slowlier
slowliest
slowliness
slowly
slowly but surely
slowmatch
slowmatches

Literary usage of Slowed

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

1. A Manual of Pharmacology and Its Applications to Therapeutics and Toxicology by Torald Hermann Sollmann (1922)
"With small doses, the depth is affected only secondarily, namely, increased in the attempt to compensate for the slowed rate, especially if the respiration ..."

2. Practical Rowing with Scull and Sweep by Eugene Abraham Darling, Arthur Wesselhoeft Stevens (1906)
"The slowed slide is quite as useful and important in rowing a low stroke as it is essential on ... The slowed slide also fits in with the idea of reaching. ..."

3. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1904)
"... prepared to enter the car when the train stopped; that when signaled by the agent the train slowed up, but failed to stop; that' petitioner and his wife ..."

4. The Lafayette Flying Corps by Charles Nordhoff (1920)
"I slowed my motor and waited for those behind. Below us were the trenches, barely discernible, as there was a half foot of A VOISIN snow on the ground, ..."

5. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1899)
"The fleet slowed down and the'" New York" received on board Secretaries Gage. ... slowed ..."

6. Therapeutics, Materia Medica, and Pharmacy: Including the Special by Samuel Otway Lewis Potter (1909)
"... then slowed; afterward quick, weak and irregular (R). Digitalis, for weak, quick pulse; a large dose, 3ss of the tincture, is credited with excellent ..."

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