[ US /dɪˈsɛɫɝˌeɪt/ ]
[ UK /dɪsˈɛləɹˌe‍ɪt/ ]
VERB
  1. lose velocity; move more slowly
    The car decelerated
  2. reduce the speed of
    He slowed down the car
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How To Use decelerate In A Sentence

  • Growth in the Gross Domestic Product decelerated significantly, from 10.5 per cent in real terms in 2000 to a mere 0.1 per cent in 2001.
  • Inflation has decelerated remarkably over the past two years.
  • In this eWeek podcast hosted by Mike Vizard, the vice president of technology for Blue Coat Systems, Dave Asbrey, explains how customers are saving thousands of dollars by using application acceleration technologies to "decelerate" the amount of bandwidth being made available to end users accessing Web 2.0 applications such as YouTube and Facebook on corporate networks. EWeek - RSS Feeds
  • Has the legacy gross margin kind of decelerated or declined faster than maybe you would thought always back. RadiSys CEO Discusses Q3 2010 Results - Earnings Call Transcript -- Seeking Alpha
  • We talked so far on this call just about a couple of the regions where you may have seen some softening and certainly not to be nitpicky but U.S. comps while very strong, two-year trend kind of decelerated here. SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
  • As you decelerate, the brakes get noticeably softer in the fraction of a second before the car stops.
  • Growth in the Gross Domestic Product ( GDP ) decelerated significantly, from 10.5 per cent in real terms in 2000 to a mere 0.1 per cent in 2001.
  • This mechanism includes dynamical decelerate device , oriented screw device and clasp dial wheel device.
  • As you get better, you will be able to feather the end of the cast to decelerate the lure just above the water's surface and produce a nice soft landing. Any good suggestions or tricks for using baitcasting reels and actually being accurate and tangle free?
  • Steeply, noses high, the whole flight rapidly decelerated for the landing.
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