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ho-hum, dead, Brit dead-and-alive: This town becomes really
slow in the autumn, till the tourists reappear in the spring. 10
reluctant, not quick, unwilling, hesitant, disinclined, averse,
loath or loth, indisposed: Even when provoked, Cassie tends to
be slow to anger.
--adv. 11 slowly, unhurriedly, cautiously, carefully,
circumspectly: He failed his test because he drove too slow.
12 behindhand, tardily, late, unpunctually: All the trains seem
to be running a bit slow tonight. 13 slowly, easy, leisurely,
easily: They told him to take things slower or he'd have
another heart attack.
--v. 14 Often, slow down or up. slack or slacken off, reduce
speed, hold back, put on the brakes, take it easy: You'd better
slow down before you come to Deadman's Hill. 15 relax, take it
easy, Colloq ease up: The doctor suggested that at my age I
ought to slow down a little.
sludge n. muck, mire, ooze, mud, slime, dregs, silt, residue,
precipitate, Colloq goo: The mechanic said that there was a lot
of sludge in the engine.
sluggishness
n. sloth, laziness, slothfulness, languor, lassitude, lethargy,
languidness, laggardness, torpor, phlegm, lifelessness,
stagnation, shiftlessness, pococurantism, faineance, accidie,
Rare hebetude: A few days' golfing in Scotland will help to
shake off the sluggishness of your Caribbean holiday.
slum n. Often, slums. ghetto, warren, shanty town, US skid row or
Skid Road: Many very famous men emerged from the slums of the
Lower East Side in New York.
slump n. 1 dip, trough, depreciation, decline, downturn, downslide,
recession, depression, falling-off, fall-off, fall, drop,
plunge, descent, crash, collapse, failure; nosedive, tailspin:
A slump in the housing market was one of the early signs of the
impending recession. The market went into a slump this morning
from which it barely recovered before closing.
--v. 2 decline, slip, recede, fall (off), drop, plunge,
descend, sink, crash, collapse, dive, plummet, take or go into a