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Synonyms for slacken

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for slacken

to reduce in tension, pressure, or rigidity

to become or cause to become less active or intense

to moderate or change a position or course of action as a result of pressure

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Synonyms for slacken

become slow or slower

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make less active or fast

become looser or slack

make slack as by lessening tension or firmness

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As soon as he had said this, his pace slackened, his head fell, his eyes became fixed.
How peaceful and spacious it was; and the peace possessed him so completely that his muscles slackened, his book drooped from his hand, and he forgot that the hour of work was wasting minute by minute.
'This spell I lay upon you, that you slacken not your course until you come to my brother in the Underworld.'
It might be thought that, in his anxiety, he would be constantly watching the changes of the wind, the disorderly raging of the billows--every chance, in short, which might force the Mongolia to slacken her speed, and thus interrupt his journey.
The top-brass order came before a number of private hospital owners whom he informed that whoever slackens in carrying out their duties shall be at pains of disciplinary measures taken against them.
TTG said: "Prices will go up even as demand slackens, and weaker firms will go to the wall."
Work sharing involves available work being distributed as evenly as possible among all workers, or else reducing overall work time, when production slackens to prevent layoffs.
Lush duets for the three central couples (Riggins with Jurgensen, Boulogne with Bubenfcek, and Anna Polikarpova with Otto Bubenfcek, Jirf's twin) notwithstanding, the introverted music, Serenade, after Plato: Symposium, slackens the pace.
In the early '60s, Pousette-Dart's work slackens. He seems to start to believe that spiritual sincerity will automatically solve pictorial problems such as how to get both strong shapes and painterliness to hang together in an abstract painting.