MEANING
To decrease in speed or cause something to slow down.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- decelerate gradually
- a vehicle decelerates
On the page
The vehicle decelerated before the passage narrowed.
She let the account decelerate as the characters approached the threshold.
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Word forms
- Base
- decelerate
- Past tense
- decelerated
- Past participle
- decelerated
- Present participle
- decelerating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- decelerate
- Present continuous
- am/is/are decelerating
- Present perfect
- have/has decelerated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been decelerating
- Past
- decelerated
- Past continuous
- was/were decelerating
- Past perfect
- had decelerated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been decelerating
- Future
- will decelerate
- Future continuous
- will be decelerating
- Future perfect
- will have decelerated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been decelerating
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: decelerate; decelerates; decelerated; decelerated; decelerating Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: decelerates.
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