rallentando

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Perhaps because I got in your way that time [rallentando] or--I don't know--really, I don't know at all Pause.

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  1. adverb Gradually slackening in tempo; ritardando. Used chiefly as a direction.
  2. noun A rallentando passage or movement.

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  1. Italian, present participle of rallentare, to slow down : re-, intensive pref. (from Latin; see re-) + allentare, to slow down (from Late Latin allentāre : Latin ad-, ad- + Latin lentus, slow).

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  1. Italian, present participle of rallentare = French ralentir, slacken, relent, a bate, retard: see relent.
 

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/rællɛnˈtændə/
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