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- 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 - a. - To be remiss or backward; to be negligent.
- Slacken - a. - To lose cohesion or solidity by a chemical combination with water; to slake; as, lime slacks.
- Slacken - a. - To abate; to become less violent.
- Slacken - a. - To lose rapidity; to become more slow; as, a current of water slackens.
- Slacken - a. - To languish; to fail; to flag.
- Slacken - a. - To end; to cease; to desist; to slake.
- Slacken - v. t. - To render slack; to make less tense or firm; as, to slack a rope; to slacken a bandage.
- Slacken - v. t. - To neglect; to be remiss in.
- Slacken - v. t. - To deprive of cohesion by combining chemically with water; to slake; as, to slack lime.
- 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.
- Slacken - v. t. - To cause to become less intense; to mitigate; to abate; to ease.
- Slacken - n. - A spongy, semivitrifled substance which miners or smelters mix with the ores of metals to prevent their fusion.
- Slackened - - of Slacken
- Slackening - - of Slacken
- Slacken - v. t. - To render slack; to make less tense or firm; as, to slack a rope; to slacken a bandage.
- 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.
- Slow - v. t. - To render slow; to slacken the speed of; to retard; to delay; as, to slow a steamer.
- 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.
- 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 - v. t. - To strike or lower in haste; to slacken suddenly; as, douse the topsail.
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- G447 ἀνίημι - 447 ἀνίημι - ἈΝΊΗΜΙ - - aníēmi - an-ee'-ay-mee - from ἀνά and (to send); to let up, i.e. (literally) slacken or (figuratively) desert, desist from:--forbear, leave, loose. - Verb - greek
- H1809 דָּלַל - 1809 דָּלַל - דָּלַל - - dâlal - daw-lal' - a primitive root (compare דָּלָה); to slacken or be feeble; figuratively, to be oppressed; bring low, dry up, be emptied, be not equal, fail, be impoverished, be made thin. - Verb - heb
- H7503 רָפָה - 7503 רָפָה - רָפָה - - râphâh - raw-faw' - a primitive root; to slacken (in many applications, literal or figurative); abate, cease, consume, draw (toward evening), fail, (be) faint, be (wax) feeble, forsake, idle, leave, let alone (go, down), (be) slack, stay, be still, be slothful, (be) weak(-en). See רָפָא. - Verb - heb