Usually means: Reduce speed or slow down.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. decelerate: Merriam-Webster
  2. decelerate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. decelerate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. decelerate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. decelerate: Vocabulary.com
  6. decelerate: Wordnik
  7. decelerate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. decelerate: Wiktionary
  9. decelerate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. decelerate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. decelerate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. decelerate: Dictionary.com
  13. decelerate: Rhymezone
  14. decelerate: FreeDictionary.org
  15. decelerate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. decelerate: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. decelerate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. decelerate: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. decelerate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. decelerate: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. decelerate: Medical dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To reduce the velocity of something.
verb:  (transitive) To reduce the rate of advancement of something, such as a disease.
verb:  (intransitive) To go slower.

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