slacken
verbEtymology
From Middle English slakenen, equivalent to slack + -en.
- inherited from slakenen
Definitions
To gradually decrease in intensity or tautness
To gradually decrease in intensity or tautness; to become slack; to lag.
- The pace slackened.
- The action moves at lightening ^([sic]) pace, never slackening for a moment.
To make slack, less taut, or less intense.
- slacken the rope
- During this interlude, Warwick, though he had slackened his pace measurably, had so nearly closed the gap between himself and them as to hear the old woman say, with the dulcet negro intonation: […]
- Elk slackened the rope so he could walk farther away, and together they went awkwardly up the trail toward the grassy little flat[…]
To deprive of cohesion by combining chemically with water
To deprive of cohesion by combining chemically with water; to slake.
- to slacken lime
The neighborhood
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at slacken. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at slacken. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
6 hops · closes at slacken
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA