Slowen

Quick meaning: Slowen is a verb meaning (ambitransitive, nonstandard) To make or become slow.

Meaning

(ambitransitive, nonstandard) To make or become slow.

Example Sentences

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.

Similarly, there is an increasing interest in potions and plant extracts from the science of ayurveda, preparations that have been listed to slowen the deleterious process of aging.

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.

However, the principal industries (light industry, electricity production and others) suffered a continuous decline and ... less in December, 1997 than a year before. ln 1998, rates of industrial tangibly slowened down […]

Word Forms

• slowens
• slowening
• slowened

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include slothen, slow, forslow, slow down, slow up, lowen.

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