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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.
The engineer designed a system to automatically decelerate the train when approaching a curve.
02
to get lessened in speed over time
Intransitive
Examples
The car began to decelerate as it approached the school zone.
The plane started to decelerate upon landing on the runway.
Lexical Tree
deceleration
decelerate
accelerate
acceler
