slowen

Etymology

From slow +‎ -en (verbal suffix).

Verb

slowen (third-person singular simple present slowens, present participle slowening, simple past and past participle slowened)

1. (transitive, intransitive, nonstandard) To make or become slow
   • 1880, ‎Sir Frank Crisp, ‎Francis Jeffrey Bell, Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society:

     Muscarin has a similar action to nicotine on the chromatophorcs, but the effect is not so well marked; it would appear to slowen the circulation and to increase the secretions.

   • 1881, Transactions of the 1st, 2nd, 4th-17th Congress, volume 1, page 509:

     The action of atropia is of the same nature upon both the nerve cells and muscular substance — viz., to slowen the nutritive processes in both, and therefore is exactly the reverse of the action of the vagus in both cases.

   • 1992, Indian Journal of Applied Psychology, volume 29-30, page 3:

     Similarly, there is an increasing interest in potions and plant extracts from the science of ayurveda, preparations that have been listed to slowen the deleterious process of aging.

   • 1998, Tadashi Yoshida, ‎Hiroki Oka, ‎Tōhoku Daigaku, Facets of transformation of the Northeast Asian countries:

     However, the principal industries (light industry, electricity production and others) suffered a continuous decline and ... less in December, 1997 than a year before. ln 1998, rates of industrial tangibly slowened down […]

Anagrams

• Enlows, lownes, nowels