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US
/ˈsɫækən/
]
[ UK /slˈækən/ ]
[ UK /slˈækən/ ]
VERB
-
become slow or slower
Production slowed -
become looser or slack
the rope slackened - make slack as by lessening tension or firmness
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make less active or fast
Don't relax your efforts now
He slackened his pace as he got tired
How To Use slacken In A Sentence
- I quit talking as his hands began to knead my tired, knotted muscles and one by one, I felt them all begin to slacken.
- Draconis froze, his body stiffening, his grip slackening.
- Again, if demand for rented accommodation slackens further, investors might high-tail it out of the market, pushing prices down in the scramble.
- Apply to full automatic transfer rewind, assure core don't slacken off.
- Ye see we march on the tap o Touthop-rigg after we pass the Pomoragrains; for the Pomoragrains, and Slackenspool, and Bloodylaws, they come in there, and they belang to the Peel; but after ye pass Pomoragrains at a muckle great saucer-headed cutlugged stane, that they ca Charlies Chuckie, there Dawston Cleugh and Charlies-hope they march. Chapter XXXVI
- There was a slackening of western output during the 1930s.
- The government found it expedient to slacken the grip of censorship in order to encourage loyal expressions of support for the Emancipation programme.
- Abdul doesn't see business slackening off anytime soon.
- Reed, more in shock than pain, slackened his grip.
- The narrative does not slacken with the news of Daniel's death and the widow's hopeless grief.
