Definition of slacken

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Slacken (a.) To abate; to become less violent.

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Lentando :: Lentando (a.) Slackening; retarding. Same as Rallentando.
Slacken :: Slacken (v. t.) To cause to become less eager; to repress; to make slow or less rapid; to retard; as, to slacken pursuit; to slacken industry..
Relent :: Relent (v. t.) To slacken; to abate.
Slacken :: Slacken (v. t.) To neglect; to be remiss in.
Slacken :: Slacken (a.) To lose cohesion or solidity by a chemical combination with water; to slake; as, lime slacks..
Relax :: Relax (n.) To make lax or loose; to make less close, firm, rigid, tense, or the like; to slacken; to loosen; to open; as, to relax a rope or cord; to relax the muscles or sinews..
Slacken :: Slacken (v. t.) To render slack; to make less tense or firm; as, to slack a rope; to slacken a bandage..
Slackening :: Slackening () of Slacke.
Rallentando :: Rallentando (a.) Slackening; -- a direction to perform a passage with a gradual decrease in time and force; ritardando.
Laxation :: Laxation (n.) The act of loosening or slackening, or the state of being loosened or slackened..
Douse :: Douse (v. t.) To strike or lower in haste; to slacken suddenly; as, douse the topsail..
Slacken :: Slacken (a.) To languish; to fail; to flag.
Slow :: Slow (v. t.) To render slow; to slacken the speed of; to retard; to delay; as, to slow a steamer..
Slacken :: Slacken (a.) To become slack; to be made less tense, firm, or rigid; to decrease in tension; as, a wet cord slackens in dry weather..
Slacken :: Slacken (n.) A spongy, semivitrifled substance which miners or smelters mix with the ores of metals to prevent their fusion..
Statable :: Stasis (n.) A slackening or arrest of the blood current in the vessels, due not to a lessening of the heart's beat, but presumably to some abnormal resistance of the capillary walls. It is one of the phenomena observed in the capillaries in inflammation..
Slacken :: Slacken (a.) To end; to cease; to desist; to slake.
Bitt :: Bitt (v. t.) To put round the bitts; as, to bitt the cable, in order to fasten it or to slacken it gradually, which is called veering away..
Slake :: Slake (v. i.) To slacken; to become relaxed.
Slacken :: Slacken (v. t.) To cause to become less intense; to mitigate; to abate; to ease.
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