slow up

v 1: become slow or slower; "Production slowed" [syn: {slow}, {slow

down}, {slack}, {slacken}]

2: cause to proceed more slowly; "The illness slowed him down"

[syn: {slow}, {slow down}]

3: lose velocity; move more slowly; "The car decelerated" [syn:

{decelerate}, {slow}, {slow down}, {retard}] [ant: {accelerate}]

blow up

1. Of a scientific computation: to become unstable. It

suggests that the computation is diverging so rapidly that it

will soon overflow or at least go {nonlinear}.

2. {blow out}.

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