adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
breathe slowly
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Breathe slowly and try to relax.
cook sth gently/slowly (= on a low heat )
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Reduce the heat and cook gently for 20 minutes.
grow rapidly/slowly/steadily
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The economy has grown steadily.
move quickly/slowly/steadily etc
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The plane moved slowly along the runway, then stopped.
slowly/gradually
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Things are gradually changing.
start badly/well/slowly etc
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Any new exercise program should start slowly.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
become
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In these areas some houses were abandoned and slowly became derelict.
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Three slowly becomes obsessed with cooking, cleaning, nice sweaters and the little specks of food stuck between teeth.
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He would slowly become the focal point of his life.
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He became slowly aware of his surroundings, like a man emerging from a long, drugged sleep.
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Her trunk movements slowly became more controlled, so that Rose could begin to balance.
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Worse, it was slowly becoming an overgrown weedy lot.
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Pores enlarge and the skin slowly becomes coarser, as its natural collagen hardens.
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That patch had slowly become an image of despair and frustration over many occasions since she had first shared his bed.
begin
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She put her hand over its back and then slowly began to climb down.
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An ice age begins slowly , almost imperceptibly, when the average temperature drops by a few degrees.
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The paratroop officer failed and spent two years in prison, then slowly began to build his platform for government.
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He was angry and felt humiliated, but with each passing day, he slowly began to accept his situation.
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As the final starbursts exploded above the ferry, the fishing boat was set alight and slowly began to sink.
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They emerge from periods of punctuated equilibrium with radically different structures that once again begin slowly evolving.
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They began slowly , but dominated the second half.
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He began slowly , afraid he was going to do it all wrong.
change
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The common grounds of everyday life were slowly changing , at least from where I stood, and so was the weather.
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He waited politely, but while he was waiting his aspect slowly changed .
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These ferns began to slowly change shape and structure during the Devonian, and some became tall and tree-like.
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Future Buildings Housing will change slowly , lagging far behind technology capability.
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People change slowly , but they change.
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Yet the climate of opinion is slowly changing , reflecting the gradually widening appreciation of disability in society as a whole.
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Opinions changed slowly in these wide-open spaces; they were not subject to the shifting whims of urban taste.
come
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However, the perm has just come slowly back again.
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The arm seemed to be made of lead, but the circulation slowly came back.
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Without answering, she left the room and came slowly down the stairs.
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He came slowly and deliberately across the fields to the back door.
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In her serene room, I have slowly come to feel safe.
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New ideas came slowly to him through his studies.
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The tears come slowly at first, easing down my cheeks.
drive
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We drove slowly to where a sentry stood.
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He drove slowly , with old-fashioned care, easing the Wolseley through the Saturday shoppers in the centre of the town.
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It drove slowly , trailing her.
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Toy trucks moved between hangars; a minute tractor drove slowly down the main runway.
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The only traffic is usually other neighbors, folks who drive slowly and watch out for children and pets.
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Rose drove slowly , but her face was stiff with tension.
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Jean drove slowly home, automatically, her mind filled with dread.
grow
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The traditional markets of western equipment companies are growing slowly , if at all.
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Their steady, reliable earnings growth attracts investors primarily when the economy is growing slowly or not at all.
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As time passed, the face in the picture grew slowly more terrible.
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The numbers of the bilingual service providers which are already mentioned are growing slowly .
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The demand for Navajo blankets slowly grew until the railroad arrived at reservation boundaries in 1881.
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Individuals feed and grow slowly , spending longer at each growth stage and ultimately producing fewer eggs.
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It was slowly growing louder and louder.
move
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She was moving slowly along the edge of the pavement when a car door swung open in front of her, blocking her path.
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Despite the quick beginning, the effort moved slowly for much of 1980.
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Each year the seasons would move slowly back through the calendar until Christmas ended up in the summer.
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As a result, the stalled negotiations began to move slowly ahead, with some of them leading to mutually profitable agreements.
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We would be wise, however, to move slowly .
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Penelope outlined their bodies together and began to move slowly , very slowly, closing her eyes.
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Nothing but the Man moved , and he moved slowly and seemed to get bigger all the time.
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I felt Frank begin to move slowly inside me and I felt the doors to my body open.
nod
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He nodded slowly and she felt his gaze drift to the gold band on her wedding finger.
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She looked at me, nodded slowly and set the trowel on the wall.
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He nods slowly , sits down.
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Scott nodded slowly , opening his eyes.
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Blanche nodded slowly and ran her tongue over her lips.
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They nodded slowly , solemnly, like a jury passing sentence.
open
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He pulled the door open slowly .
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Then he slowly opened his fist to run the palm over the edge of his plate, depositing the seeds.
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I watched its blue and red wings slowly opening and closing on my chest.
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He closed his eyes for an instant, then slowly opened them.
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Then the doors opened slowly and a woman came out and stood tranquilly on the steps.
rise
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After a moment he rose slowly , poured himself a whisky, returned to the Chesterfield and took a dismal sip.
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Did one lift after death like a feather, rising slowly ?
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White-faced, too shocked for tears, she rose slowly to her feet.
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The jet rose slowly , at first, and then ever so steeply, and the spectators cheered and clapped.
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Aubrey rose slowly to his feet.
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The slowly rising death rate for malignancies masks several cross-currents.
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Hold on to the bannister rail and lower your heels down slowly , then slowly rise on tiptoe.
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Still traveling above escape velocity, it slowly rose and grew fainter over Alberta, until it was no longer visible.
speak
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The speech lasted exactly forty-five minutes, which, particularly as Baldwin spoke slowly , was not long.
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She spoke Slowly with little rise and fall to her voice.
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I have found one must speak slowly to people who live in the back streets of London.
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Bob speaks slowly , laboriously, didactically.
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He spoke slowly and clearly and smiled a lot.
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Sabour spoke slowly , too, and he had a rather unnerving dead-level gaze.
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He spoke slowly and without inflection.
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He began asking me about my studies, speaking slowly and seemingly from someplace very far away.
start
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But it will start slowly , with initial plans for only four new superstores this year.
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Each team started slowly offensively before catching fire in the final seven minutes of the opening period.
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Against Team Cotswold, Partners started slowly and went 5-0 down and a late recovery was not enough to save the set.
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They should be started slowly because of anticholinergic side effects that can occur, especially in older patients.
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But you know that the accelerating effect on a Secondary Darkfall starts slowly and gains momentum.
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He rose and then dived within her, starting slowly as if to the beating of a primal drum.
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Their conversation starts slowly and in ritual fashion.
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Then start slowly , and build up your speed as you go along.
turn
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And without their thoughts, my mind turned slowly on the blaze in the armchair, one day coming.
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Mr Chen was delighted: he snapped pictures while the spools of the tape recorder turned slowly .
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I turned slowly away and felt the rush and zip of violently animated matter.
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He kept his eye on a tan Ford turning slowly into the station and coming to a stop near the service area.
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She turned slowly and looked at the figure in the chair.
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Through the high-powered telescope, they could see that the asteroid was very irregular, and turning slowly end over end.
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It turned slowly , which made things inside just heavy enough to stay on the ground.
walk
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Silently, Kirov moved away from the table and began to walk slowly down the street.
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An elderly man is walking slowly and painfully close to the wall, using it as support.
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Giles walked slowly and quietly, thankful to be rescued.
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They walk slowly through the halls.
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He left the hospital and began to walk slowly along the boulevard leading back to the centre of Perugia.
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They waited while the project supervisor and two of his assistants emerged from the airlock, then walked slowly toward the crater.
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Then they walked slowly back to the shop.
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In contrast walking slowly into a room may indicate reticence or apprehension.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Slowly prices began to fall.
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Ann drove away slowly .
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Can you speak more slowly ? I can't understand what you're saying.
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He got up slowly out of his chair and came towards me.
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Her condition is slowly improving.
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Large white clouds drifted slowly across the deep blue sky.
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Lynne slowly began to realize the job wasn't as easy as it seemed.
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The situation is slowly improving.
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Their relationship has developed slowly , but they now consider each other close friends.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Finally she turned round and, slowly and very reluctantly, began to make her way back towards the house.
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Gradually I descended the spruce tree and slowly crept toward the feeding birds.
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I woke slowly and swam up from the bottom of a dark sea.
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Some had been killed outright by flying shrapnel, others had been badly wounded and had died slowly .
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Start with a puddle and progress slowly to a small pool and shallow stream.
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The contagion spread slowly at first, almost unnoticed.
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The hospital machinery moved into action, but slowly .
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Turning around, as in making a 360-degree motion and seeing the surroundings spin slowly around you.