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foreslow

UK/fɔː(ɹ)ˈsləʊ/

foreslow verb: to be slow or tardy; to slow down.

Verb

foreslow (third-person singular simple present foreslows, present participle foreslowing, simple past and past participle foreslowed)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete) To be slow or tardy; to slow down.
    • Furthermore all that are carried with circular motion, seem to foreslow, and to move with more than one motion.1662, Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue Two)
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To slow, hinder, delay, impede.
    • No stream, no wood, no mountain could foreslow / Their hasty pace.1600, [Torquato Tasso], “(please specify |book=1 to 20)”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield...
    • Then rise, ye blessed flocks! and home apace,
      Lest night with stealing steps do you foreslow1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Iune. Ægloga Sexta.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC

Forms of foreslow

third-person singular presentforeslows
present participleforeslowing
past participleforeslowed
pastforeslowed
alternative formforslow

Origin of foreslow

Alteration of earlier forslow (spelling presumably influenced by fore-), from Middle English forslowen. More at forslow.

Words that rhyme with foreslow

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Questions about foreslow

What does foreslow mean?
Foreslow means to be slow or tardy; to slow down.
What part of speech is foreslow?
Foreslow is a verb.
How do you pronounce foreslow?
Foreslow is pronounced /fɔː(ɹ)ˈsləʊ/ (UK).
What is the past tense of foreslow?
The past tense of foreslow is foreslowed.

Words near foreslow in the dictionary

  1. foresleeve
  2. foresleeves
  3. foreslew
  4. foreslope
  5. foreslopes
  6. foreslow
  7. foreslowed
  8. foreslowing
  9. foreslows
  10. foresmack
  11. Foresman

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