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slowen en · VERB

Etymology

From slow + -en.

Meanings

1. (ambitransitive, nonstandard) To make or become slow
   • 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. 1880, Sir Frank Crisp, Francis Jeffrey Bell, Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society:
   • 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. 1992, Indian Journal of Applied Psychology, volumes 29-30, page 3:
   • 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 […] 1998, Tadashi Yoshida, Hiroki Oka, Tōhoku Daigaku, Facets of transformation of the Northeast Asian countries:
   • 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. 1881, Transactions of the 1st, 2nd, 4th-17th Congress, volume 1, page 509:

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