Directions: Select the most appropriate meaning of the underlined idiom in the given sentence.
The mobilization of weaker communities challenged and defeated the Congress first, and slowed down the totalizing drive of Hindutva later, in the heartland States of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.
1
To live or work less actively or intensely.
2
To finish a drink quickly.
3
To knock or bring to the ground.
4
To lose a race deliberately.
5
To decrease the speed or rate of something.