- - Puts the brakes on
- - Slackens the pace
- - Eases off the gas
- - Uses the brakes
- - Taps the brake
- - Eases up on the gas
- - Taps the brakes
- - Applies the brakes
- - Steps on the brake
- - Taps on the brakes
- - Puts on the brakes, e.g.
- - Slackens the tempo
- - Cuts the engine
- - Cuts the speed.
- - Puts on the brakes
- - Hits the brakes
- - Slackens
- - Southern depressions impedes progress !
- - Decreases speed
- - responds to a yellow light, perhaps
- - Reduces speed, as in a school zone
- - prepares to cross a speed bump
- - obeys a yellow light
- - What fast beat does for breakdown
- - Obeys yellow
- - Loses momentum
- - Decelerates
- - Reduces speed
- - Reduces one's speed
- - Loses speed
- - Prepares to enter a work zone, perhaps
- - Reacts to a yellow light
- - Lessens one's pace
- - Opposite of hastens
- - Reacts to road construction ahead
- - Prepares to stop
- - What beat does for ballad
- - Responds to a yellow
- - Becomes less, as rain
- - Enters a school zone
- - Does some rubbernecking, say
- - Loses velocity
- - Comes to a snail's pace
- - Reduces 48 Down.
- - Hinders
- - Impedes.
- - Moderates
- - Loses steam
- - ... brakes
- - Holds up.
- - Retards
- - Delays.
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