What is "decelerated"

Usage examples of "decelerated".

He decelerated, put Sigurd Magsman down, and switched on the retinal light in his eyes, trying to pierce the wombgloom.

There he stopped, decelerated and jaunted to the monastery airfield, half a mile distant.

He was decelerated, but the exhaustion of his body told him he had been under acceleration while he had been unconscious.

The cargo door thumped open, expelling a two-ton square of durasteel, and the blastboat decelerated and slammed her into the transparisteel dome, and she grabbed for the cannon triggers and pushed herself into the firing seat.

Luke decelerated as much as he dared with the skips coming behind them and locked down the trigger of his laser cannon, burning round after round into the interior of the cruiser.

Lando nosed down toward it and decelerated hard, and then there was nothing but durasteel hull in the forward viewport, and the two ships kissed particle shields hard enough to push the starferry into the Yuuzhan Vong tether ship.

The little knot of armed Tran and humans decelerated on its dark, windswept, western flank.

Just as he realized that their twisting triangle of chairs was going to crash into one of the tallest circular spires on the near end of that orbiting mountain, his chair pitched completely over and the forcefield squeezed the breath out of him as they decelerated hard enough to make his vision go from red to black and back to red again.

When the slam should have come, the door decelerated abruptly and closed with a soft, decisive, double click.