Crossword-Solution: SLOWS 5 letters, 51 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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Slows n. Milk sickness.

We have 51 clues for the answer “SLOWS”

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Reduces in speed 1 answer
Heeds a yellow light 1 answer
Lessens one's pace 1 answer
Loses speed 1 answer
Loses velocity 1 answer
Opposite of hastens 1 answer
Prepares to cross a speed bump 1 answer
Prepares to enter a work zone, perhaps 1 answer
Prepares to stop 1 answer
Puts on the brakes, e.g. 1 answer
Reacts to a yellow light 1 answer
Reacts to road construction ahead 1 answer
Enters a school zone 1 answer
Reduces one's speed 1 answer
Responds to a yellow 1 answer
Slackens the pace 1 answer
Slackens the tempo 1 answer
Steps on the brake 1 answer
Taps on the brakes 1 answer
Taps the brake 1 answer
Taps the brakes 1 answer
Uses the brakes 1 answer
What beat does for ballad 1 answer
lessens the speed of 1 answer
Eases up on the gas 1 answer
Applies the brakes 1 answer
Becomes less, as rain 1 answer
Checks the progress of 1 answer
Comes to a snail's pace 1 answer
Cuts the engine 1 answer
Does some rubbernecking, say 1 answer
Eases off the gas 1 answer
Cuts the speed. 1 answer
Decelerates 2 answers
Hits the brakes 2 answers
Reduces speed 2 answers
Puts on the brakes 3 answers
Loses momentum 4 answers
__ brakes 6 answers
Loses steam 8 answers
Stalls 8 answers
APPLY BRAKES TO 10 answers
Impedes 10 answers
Retards 10 answers
Brakes Apply quickly, as 10 answers
A DEVICE THAT RETARDS SOMETHING'S MOTION 11 answers
Slackens 13 answers
Moderates 13 answers
Hinders 14 answers
Delays. 18 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETEAR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SLOWS (5)

Often heard as in "Freela casts a tac nuke at Shub-Internet for slowing her down." (A forged response often follows along the lines of: "Shub-Internet gulps down the tac nuke and burps happily.") Also cursed by users of {FTP} and {telnet} when the system slows down.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
You must begin to reel and plunge towards the door at least two blocks before your destination, so as to leap to the ground when the car slows up; otherwise the conductor will be offended with you, and carry you several squares too far, or with a jocose "Step lively," will grasp your elbow and shoot you out.
Worldly Ways and Byways Eliot Gregory 2007
Although Czech unemployment is currently the lowest in Central Europe, it will probably increase 1-2 percentage points in 1995 as large state firms go bankrupt or are restructured and service sector growth slows.
The 1995 CIA World Factbook United States Central Intelligence Agency 1996
The rider must avoid holes in the ground, and keep up the pace until the horse slows up on its own account.
The Round-up John Murray and Marion Mills Miller 1996
Joe, you get the next dance with her, and just about time the music slows up you dance her around so you can stop right near where Bill will be standin', so Bill can get her quick for the dance after that.
Seventeen Booth Tarkington 2006

Quotes with SLOWS (3)

If you just sit and observe, you will see how restless your mind is. If you try to calm it, it only makes it worse, but over time it does calm, and when it does, there's room to hear more subtle things - that's when your intuition starts to blossom and you start to see things more clearly and be in the present more. Your mind just slows down, and you see a tremendous expanse in the moment. You see so much more than you could see before. It's a discipline; you have to practice it.
Walter Isaacson Steve Jobs
I hate patience. Slows everything down.
J.D. Robb Witness in Death
Say you could view a time lapse film of our planet: what would you see? Transparent images moving through light, “an infinite storm of beauty.” The beginning is swaddled in mists, blasted by random blinding flashes. Lava pours and cools; seas boil and flood. Clouds materialize and shift; now you can see the earth’s face through only random patches of clarity. The land shudders and splits, like pack ice rent by widening lead. Mountains burst up, jutting, and dull and soften be…
Annie Dillard Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYM, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 86 times in crossword archives (1953–2025).