- a variation of decelerate.
deaccelerate
Americanverb (used with or without object)
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Many of those grandfathers — Jelly Roll Morton, Sidney Bechet, Louis Armstrong — lived in New Orleans, and McCusker deaccelerated by several sites where they once performed or resided.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 26, 2018
Jeffreys hits the bulls-eye with a deaccelerated version of The Beatles’ “Help.”
From Washington Times ● May 2, 2017
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