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Slacken

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To make or become slower; slow down: The runners slackened their pace. Air speed slackened.

v. To make or become less tense, taut, or firm; loosen: I slackened the line to let the fish swim. The tension in the board room finally slackened.

v. To make or become less vigorous, intense, or severe; ease: slacken discipline; afraid that morale might slacken.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To gradually decrease in intensity or tautness; to become slack.

v. To make slack, less taut, or less intense.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A spongy, semivitrifled substance which miners or smelters mix with the ores of metals to prevent their fusion.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To become slack.

To become less active; fall off: as, trade slackened; the demand slackens; prices slacken

To become remiss or neglectful, as of duty.

To make slack or slacker.

To abate; moderate; lessen; diminish the intensity, severity, rate, etc., of; hence, to mitigate; assuage; relieve: as, to slacken one's pace; to slacken cares.

To be or become remiss in or neglectful of; remit; relax: as, to slacken labor or exertion.

n. The slags or cinder from previous fusions, used in smelting operations to mix with natural ores and to retard fusion of the ores until reduction shall have proceeded to the desired point.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. make less active or fast

v. make slack as by lessening tension or firmness

v. become looser or slack

v. become slow or slower

Word Usage

"Think Ill just kind of slacken up on this G.C.L. stuff now."

Verb Form

slackened slackening slackens

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

minify lessen decrease weaken

Variant

slakin

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

retard moderate relax loose abate

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

Machen blacken bracken