slow down

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69 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Spanish: desacelerar — (intransitive) to decelerate
• Spanish: decelerar — (intransitive) to decelerate
• Spanish: lentificarse — (intransitive) to decelerate
• Spanish: enlentecerse — (intransitive) to decelerate
• Spanish: ralentizarse — (intransitive) to decelerate
• Spanish: ir más despacio — (intransitive) to decelerate
• Spanish: reducir la velocidad — (intransitive) to decelerate
• Spanish: aminorar la velocidad — (intransitive) to decelerate
• Spanish: disminuir la velocidad — (intransitive) to decelerate
• Azerbaijani: yavaşlamaq — (transitive) to reduce speed
• Azerbaijani: yavaşıtmaq — (transitive) to reduce speed
• Belarusian: запаво́льваць (zapavólʹvacʹ) — (transitive) to reduce speed
• Belarusian: спаво́льніць (spavólʹnicʹ) — (transitive) to reduce speed
• Bulgarian: забавям (zabavjam) — (transitive) to reduce speed
• Catalan: alentir — (transitive) to reduce speed
• Catalan: descelerar — (transitive) to reduce speed
• Chinese Mandarin: 減速 /减速 (jiǎnsù) — (transitive) to reduce speed
• Chinese Mandarin: 放慢 (fàngmàn) — (transitive) to reduce speed
• Czech: zpomalit — (transitive) to reduce speed
• Dutch: afremmen — (transitive) to reduce speed
• Finnish: hidastaa — (transitive) to reduce speed
• French: ralentir — (transitive) to reduce speed
• French: décélérer — (transitive) to reduce speed
• Georgian: შენელება (šeneleba) — (transitive) to reduce speed
• German: verlangsamen — (transitive) to reduce speed
• Greek: επιβραδύνω (epivradýno) — (transitive) to reduce speed
• Hungarian: lassít — (transitive) to reduce speed
• Hungarian: lelassít — (transitive) to reduce speed
• Ido: lenteskar — (transitive) to reduce speed
• Ido: lentigar — (transitive) to reduce speed
• Italian: rallentare — (transitive) to reduce speed
• Italian: decelerare — (transitive) to reduce speed
• Japanese: 遅らせる (okuraseru) — (transitive) to reduce speed
• Khmer: បង្អែរបង្អង់ (bɑŋ’ae-bɑŋ’ɑŋ) — (transitive) to reduce speed
• Latin: tardō — (transitive) to reduce speed
• Latin: tardescō — (transitive) to reduce speed
• Latin: retardo — (transitive) to reduce speed
• Māori: whakapūhoi — (transitive) to reduce speed
• Polish: zwalniać — (transitive) to reduce speed
• Polish: zwolnić — (transitive) to reduce speed
• Polish: spowalniać — (transitive) to reduce speed
• Polish: spowolnić — (transitive) to reduce speed
• Portuguese: desacelerar — (transitive) to reduce speed
• Romanian: încetini — (transitive) to reduce speed
• Romanian: decelera — (transitive) to reduce speed
• Russian: замедля́ть (zamedljátʹ) — (transitive) to reduce speed
• Russian: заме́длить (zamédlitʹ) — (transitive) to reduce speed
• Russian: снижа́ть ско́рость (snižátʹ skórostʹ) — (transitive) to reduce speed
• Russian: сни́зить ско́рость (snízitʹ skórostʹ) — (transitive) to reduce speed
• Serbo-Croatian: uspòriti — (transitive) to reduce speed
• Serbo-Croatian: usporávati — (transitive) to reduce speed
• Spanish: desacelerar — (transitive) to reduce speed
• Spanish: decelerar — (transitive) to reduce speed
• Spanish: lentificar — (transitive) to reduce speed
• Spanish: enlentecer — (transitive) to reduce speed
• Spanish: ralentizar — (transitive) to reduce speed
• Spanish: reducir la velocidad de — (transitive) to reduce speed
• Spanish: aminorar la velocidad de — (transitive) to reduce speed
• Spanish: disminuir la velocidad de — (transitive) to reduce speed
• Swedish: sakta — (transitive) to reduce speed
• Swedish: bromsa — (transitive) to reduce speed
• Tagalog: bumagal — (transitive) to reduce speed
• Turkish: yavaşlamak — (transitive) to reduce speed
• Ukrainian: упові́льнювати (upovílʹnjuvaty) — (transitive) to reduce speed
• Ukrainian: упові́льнити (upovílʹnyty) — (transitive) to reduce speed
• Ukrainian: спові́льнювати (spovílʹnjuvaty) — (transitive) to reduce speed
• Ukrainian: спові́льнити (spovílʹnyty) — (transitive) to reduce speed
• Welsh: arafu — (transitive) to reduce speed
• Welsh: slofi — (transitive) to reduce speed