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slowed up

slowed up is the simple past and past participle of slow up.

Meaning of slow up

Verb

slow up (third-person singular simple present slows up, present participle slowing up, simple past and past participle slowed up)

  1. (colloquial, idiomatic) To slow; to slow down; to decelerate.
    • She has been intto prison ministry work for several years and has never slowed up, but intensified her love.1976 December 18, John Gibbs, “A True Sister”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 25, page 4

Questions about slowed up

What is slowed up the simple past and past participle of?
Slowed up is the simple past and past participle of slow up.

Words near slowed up in the dictionary

  1. slowed and throwed
  2. slowed down
  3. slowed in
  4. slowed off
  5. slowed out
  6. slowed up
  7. slowen
  8. slowened
  9. slowening
  10. slowens
  11. slower

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Adapted from Wiktionary: slowed up (page history and authors); slow up (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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