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slowen

slowen verb: to make or become slow.

Verb

slowen (third-person singular simple present slowens, present participle slowening, simple past and past participle slowened)

  1. (ambitransitive, nonstandard) To make or become slow
    • Muscarin has a similar action to nicotine on the chromatophorcs, but the effect is not so well marked; it would appear to slowen the circulation and to increase the secretions.1880, Sir Frank Crisp, Francis Jeffrey Bell, Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society
    • The action of atropia is of the same nature upon both the nerve cells and muscular substance — viz., to slowen the nutritive processes in both, and therefore is exactly the reverse of the action of the vagus in both cases.1881, Transactions of the 1st, 2nd, 4th-17th Congress, volume 1, page 509

Forms of slowen

third-person singular presentslowens
present participleslowening
past participleslowened
pastslowened

Origin of slowen

From slow + -en.

Questions about slowen

What does slowen mean?
Slowen means to make or become slow.
What part of speech is slowen?
Slowen is a verb.
What is the past tense of slowen?
The past tense of slowen is slowened.

Words near slowen in the dictionary

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

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