SLACKEN

slacken

Verb

  1. To gradually decrease in intensity or tautness; to become slack.
    The pace slackened.
  2. To make slack, less taut, or less intense.
  3. To deprive of cohesion by combining chemically with water; to slake.
    to slack lime


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