slacken
IPA: sɫˈækʌn
verb
- (intransitive) To gradually decrease in intensity or tautness; to become slack.
- (transitive) To make slack, less taut, or less intense.
- To deprive of cohesion by combining chemically with water; to slake.
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Examples of "slacken" in Sentences
- The fire from the fort slackened.
- Their military discipline is relaxed and slackened.
- The unidentified warship did not even slacken speed.
- His energetic defense of his imposture began to slacken.
- Think Ill just kind of slacken up on this G.C.L. stuff now.
- Shall we slacken our zeal for the cause of our Lord and King
- Think I’ll just kind of slacken up on this G.C.L. stuff now.”
- Think I'll just kind of slacken up on this G.C.L. stuff now. "
- Think I'll just kind of slacken up on this G.C.L. stuff now. ''
- After twenty two years, the Hegelian influence began to slacken.
- He expected a drop in British morale, and their advance to slacken.
- Lucy's efforts to find the true religion did not slacken in Palmyra.
- Today (Friday): Yesterday's winds slacken for a fantastic autumn day.
- The following morning, the winds began to slacken and the sea to abate.
- Their work did not slacken after the end of the Luftwaffe's bombing raids.
- I suggest this book as required reading for 8th graders would, all by itself, slacken teen birth rates dramatically.
- And that decline may well come not from a scarcity of resources but from greater efficiency, which will slacken global demand.
- No matter which of the two levers he clicked below either hand-grip, the chain seemed to slacken, meaning the pedals spun faster, and the bike slowed.
- At the same time, U.S. officials had hoped that Mr. Assad, who succeeded his dictator father, Hafez al-Assad, in 2000, would embrace democratic change and slacken his ties to Iran.
- The suggestion that the elimination of alcoholic beverage ads from The Pitt News and other publications connected with the university will slacken the demand for alcohol by Pitt students is counterintuitive and unsupported by any evidence ....