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foreslowing

foreslowing is the present participle and gerund of foreslow.

Meaning of foreslow

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...

Questions about foreslowing

What is foreslowing the present participle and gerund of?
Foreslowing is the present participle and gerund of foreslow.

Words near foreslowing in the dictionary

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

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