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deboost

deboost verb: to slow (a spacecraft) by reducing thrust, typically in order to achieve a stable orbit.

Verb

deboost (third-person singular simple present deboosts, present participle deboosting, simple past and past participle deboosted)

  1. (ambitransitive) To slow (a spacecraft) by reducing thrust, typically in order to achieve a stable orbit.
    • This combination would prevent anti-ballistic missile radar (BMEWS), presently the U.S.’s main screen against surprise attack, from ascertaining the point of impact until the rocket “deboosts”-about three minutes and 500 miles from target.1967 November 10, “Defense: The Space Bomb”, in TIME, archived from the original on 11 Jun 2026
  2. (Internet, transitive) To limit or suppress the reach of (an account or post).
    • In one tweet Elon appears to allude to the fact that Twitter’s internal systems can apply a shadow ban and deboost an account on their own, without any human interference or knowledge. […] Outside of the Twitter Terms of Service there are no guidelines for when or how a user could be shadow banned...2022 November 28, Joe Youngblood, “How to Tell if You Have Been Shadow Banned or Deboosted on Twitter”, in Joe Youngblood, archived from the original on 21 Nov 2024
    • And it was not as though they were unable, as the waves of bannings and algorithmic deboosting of those on the online right began in earnest after 2016.2023 March 16, Andrew Isker, “The Regime’s War To Make Memes Illegal”, in Gab News, archived from the original on 21 Mar 2023

Noun

deboost (plural deboosts)

  1. A slowing manoeuvre of this kind.

Antonyms of deboost

Forms of deboost

Verb
third-person singular presentdeboosts
present participledeboosting
past participledeboosted
pastdeboosted
Noun
pluraldeboosts

Origin of deboost

From de- + boost.

Questions about deboost

What does deboost mean?
Deboost means to slow (a spacecraft) by reducing thrust, typically in order to achieve a stable orbit.
What part of speech is deboost?
Deboost can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of deboost?
The past tense of deboost is deboosted.

Words near deboost in the dictionary

  1. deboonked
  2. deboonker
  3. deboonkers
  4. deboonking
  5. deboonks
  6. deboost
  7. deboosted
  8. debooster
  9. deboosters
  10. deboosting
  11. deboosts

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