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shedding: the process whereby something is shed
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| slow |
not moving quickly; taking a comparatively long time; "a slow walker"; "the slow lane of traffic"; "her steps were slow"; "he was slow in reacting to the news"; "slow but steady growth" at a slow tempo; "the band played a slow waltz" dense: slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity; "so dense he never understands anything I say to him"; "never met anyone quite so dim"; "although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick"- Thackeray; "dumb officials make some really dumb decisions"; "he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse"; "worked with the slow students" (used of timepieces) indicating a time earlier than the correct time; "the clock is slow" decelerate: lose velocity; move more slowly; "The car decelerated" boring: so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; "a boring evening with uninteresting people"; "the deadening effect of some routine tasks"; "a dull play"; "his competent but dull performance"; "a ho-hum speaker who couldn't capture their attention"; "what an irksome task the writing of long letters is"- Edmund Burke; "tedious days on the train"; "the tiresome chirping of a cricket"- Mark Twain; "other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome" become slow or slower; "Production slowed" slowly: without speed (`slow' is sometimes used informally for `slowly'); "he spoke slowly"; "go easy here--the road is slippery"; "glaciers move tardily"; "please go slow so I can see the sights" dull: (of business) not active or brisk; "business is dull (or slow)"; "a sluggish market" behind: of timepieces; "the clock is almost an hour slow"; "my watch is running behind" cause to proceed more slowly; "The illness slowed him down"
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| sleep terror disorder |
a disorder of sleep characterized by a dream of terrifying dimensions far worse than a typical nightmare; they occur during NREM sleep
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| slice |
a share of something; "a slice of the company's revenue" piece: a serving that has been cut from a larger portion; "a piece of pie"; "a slice of bread" cut: a wound made by cutting; "he put a bandage over the cut" slit: make a clean cut through; "slit her throat" a golf shot that curves to the right for a right-handed golfer; "he took lessons to cure his slicing" hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels in a different direction a thin flat piece cut off of some object cut into slices; "Slice the salami, please" a spatula for spreading paint or ink hit a ball so that it causes a backspin
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| slow virus |
a virus that remains dormant in the body for a long time before symptoms appear; "kuru is caused by a slow virus"
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