Slacken ¹

Definition: To become slack; to be made less tense, firm, or rigid; to decrease in tension; as, a wet cord slackens in dry weather.

Slacken ²

Definition: To be remiss or backward; to be negligent.

Slacken ³

Definition: To lose cohesion or solidity by a chemical combination with water; to slake; as, lime slacks.

Slacken ⁴

Definition: To abate; to become less violent.

Slacken ⁵

Definition: To lose rapidity; to become more slow; as, a current of water slackens.

Slacken ⁶

Definition: To languish; to fail; to flag.

Slacken ⁷

Definition: To end; to cease; to desist; to slake.

Slacken ⁸

Definition: To render slack; to make less tense or firm; as, to slack a rope; to slacken a bandage.

Slacken ⁹

Definition: To neglect; to be remiss in.

Slacken ¹⁰

Definition: To deprive of cohesion by combining chemically with water; to slake; as, to slack lime.

Slacken ¹¹

Definition: To cause to become less eager; to repress; to make slow or less rapid; to retard; as, to slacken pursuit; to slacken industry.

Slacken ¹²

Definition: To cause to become less intense; to mitigate; to abate; to ease.

Slacken ¹³

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

slacken ¹⁴

Definition: make slack as by lessening tension or firmness

slacken ¹⁵

Definition: become looser or slack; "the rope slackened"

slacken ¹⁶

Definition: become slow or slower; "Production slowed"

slacken ¹⁷

Definition: make less active or fast; "He slackened his pace as he got tired"; "Don''t relax your efforts now"