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slow-walking

slow-walking is the present participle and gerund of slow-walk.

Meaning of slow-walk

Verb (1)

slow-walk (third-person singular simple present slow-walks, present participle slow-walking, simple past and past participle slow-walked)

  1. (especially, idiomatic, transitive) To delay a request or command, to drag one's feet, to stall, to obstruct, to drag out a process.
    • many of the men were simply standing around and were purposely ‘slow-walking’ the project […] to stretch out the term of employment.1973, testimony in United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit case (regarding labor dispute)

Verb (2)

slow-walk (third-person singular simple present slow-walks, present participle slow-walking, simple past and past participle slow-walked)

  1. (transitive) To punish, to chastise.

Questions about slow-walking

What is slow-walking the present participle and gerund of?
Slow-walking is the present participle and gerund of slow-walk.

Words near slow-walking in the dictionary

  1. slow-rolling
  2. slow-rolls
  3. slow-up
  4. slow-walk
  5. slow-walked
  6. slow-walking
  7. slow-walks
  8. slow-wave
  9. slow-witted
  10. slow-wittedly
  11. slow-wittedness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: slow-walking (page history and authors); slow-walk (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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