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Rallentando :: Rallentando (a.) Slackening; -- a direction to perform a passage with a gradual decrease in time and force; ritardando.

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

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

Lentando :: Lentando (a.) Slackening; retarding. Same as Rallentando.

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

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

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

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

Slackening :: Slackening () of Slacke.

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

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

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..

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 be remiss or backward; to be negligent.

Slackened :: Slackened () of Slacke.

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

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

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..

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

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