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to decelerate
01
to slow down or reduce the speed of something
Transitive: to decelerate a moving vehicle or object
Examples
The pilot carefully decelerated the airplane, bringing it to a smooth landing on the runway.
02
to get lessened in speed over time
Intransitive
Grammatical Information
Composition
derived
Movement verb
Regular
Present tense
decelerate
3rd person singular
decelerates
Present participle
decelerating
Past simple
decelerated
Past participle
decelerated
Examples
The car began to decelerate as it approached the school zone.
Lexical Tree
deceleration
decelerate
accelerate
acceler
