retard throttle
41ease off — Synonyms and related words: abate, arrest, avert, backpedal, backwater, bate, bear off, brake, check, clip the wings, curb, decelerate, delay, detain, die down, diffuse, disjoin, disperse, draw aside, draw rein, ease, ease up, ebb, edge off, fall …
42ease up — Synonyms and related words: abate, arrest, backpedal, backwater, bate, brake, check, clip the wings, curb, decelerate, delay, detain, draw rein, ease, ease off, hold back, hold in check, hold up, impede, keep back, let down, let up, let up on,… …
43hold back — Synonyms and related words: abstain, abstain from, arrest, avoid, avoid excess, backpedal, backwater, begrudge, bit, block, bottle up, brake, bridle, check, clip the wings, close the hand, confine, conserve, constrain, contain, control, cool,… …
44hold up — Synonyms and related words: adjourn, advertise, afford support, air, arrest, back, back up, backpedal, backwater, be consistent, be proof against, be the case, be true, be truthful, be unflappable, bear, bear out, bear up, bear up against, blazon …
45impede — Synonyms and related words: arrest, backpedal, backwater, bar, block, bottle up, brake, burden, check, clip the wings, confine, confound, countercheck, cramp, cripple, cumber, curb, dam, dam up, damp, dampen, decelerate, delay, detain, discomfit …
46keep back — Synonyms and related words: abstain, arrest, backpedal, backwater, block, bosom, bottle up, brake, bridle, check, classify, clip the wings, conceal, confine, conserve, constrain, contain, control, cool, cool off, countercheck, curb, curtail, dam… …
47let down — Synonyms and related words: abate, apostatize, arrest, backpedal, backwater, baffle, baffled, balk, balked, bamboozle, bate, bear down, beguile, betray, betrayed, bilk, bilked, blasted, blighted, bluff, bolt, brake, break away, bring low, cajole …
48let up — Synonyms and related words: abate, ablate, arrest, backpedal, backwater, bate, be eaten away, brake, call a recess, check, clip the wings, consume, consume away, corrode, crumble, curb, decelerate, decline, decrease, delay, deliquesce, detain,… …
49lose ground — Synonyms and related words: arrest, backpedal, backslide, backwater, be found wanting, brake, check, clip the wings, cock, collapse, come short, curb, decelerate, decline, delay, detain, draw rein, ease off, ease up, fail, fall astern, fall away …
50moderate — Synonyms and related words: K, Laodicean, abate, acceptable, accepting, act between, adequate, adjust to, admissible, all right, allay, alleviate, alter, ambling, apathetic, arbitrate, arrest, assuage, attemper, average, backpedal, backwater,… …
