deboost

present singular third person deboosts · participle present deboosting · participle past deboosted · past deboosted

1. ambitransitiveTo slow (a spacecraft) by reducing thrust, typically in order to achieve a stable orbit.

   This combination would prevent anti-ballistic missile radar (BMEWS), presently the U.S.’s main screen against surprise attack, from ascertaining the point of impact until the rocket “deboosts”-about three minutes and 500 miles from target.

   1967 November 10, “Defense: The Space Bomb”, in TIME, archived from the original on 11 Jun 2026

2. InternettransitiveTo limit or suppress the reach of (an account or post).

   And it was not as though they were unable, as the waves of bannings and algorithmic deboosting of those on the online right began in earnest after 2016.

   2023 March 16, Andrew Isker, “The Regime’s War To Make Memes Illegal”, in Gab News, archived from the original on 21 Mar 2023

   1 more example

   In one tweet Elon appears to allude to the fact that Twitter’s internal systems can apply a shadow ban and deboost an account on their own, without any human interference or knowledge. […] Outside of the Twitter Terms of Service there are no guidelines for when or how a user could be shadow banned or deboosted – likely, because until recently most users were unaware that such a thing could occur to them.

   2022 November 28, Joe Youngblood, “How to Tell if You Have Been Shadow Banned or Deboosted on Twitter”, in Joe Youngblood, archived from the original on 21 Nov 2024

plural deboosts

1. A slowing manoeuvre of this kind.