Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of slacken is as below...

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

Slake :: Slake (v. i.) To slacken; to become relaxed.

Slacken :: Slacken (a.) To end; to cease; to desist; to slake.

Laxation :: Laxation (n.) The act of loosening or slackening, or the state of being loosened or slackened..

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..

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

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

Slacken :: Slacken (v. t.) To neglect; to be remiss in.

Slackening :: Slackening () of Slacke.

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

Slacken :: Slacken (v. t.) To render slack; to make less tense or firm; as, to slack a rope; to slacken a bandage..

Slacken :: Slacken (a.) To be remiss or backward; to be negligent.

Slacken :: Slacken (v. t.) To deprive of cohesion by combining chemically with water; to slake; as, to slack lime..

Lag :: Lag (v. t.) To cause to lag; to slacken.

Slacken :: Slacken (a.) To languish; to fail; to flag.

Slacken :: Slacken (v. t.) To cause to become less intense; to mitigate; to abate; to ease.

Relent :: Relent (v. t.) To slacken; to abate.

Surgeful :: Surge (n.) To let go or slacken suddenly, as a rope; as, to surge a hawser or messenger; also, to slacken the rope about (a capstan)..

Douse :: Douse (v. t.) To strike or lower in haste; to slacken suddenly; as, douse the topsail..

Random Fonts

Most Popular