Bible Dictionaries
Slacken

Webster's Dictionary

Search for…

Enter query below:

or

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Prev Entry
Slacked

Next Entry
Slackened

Resource Toolbox

Print Article

Additional Links

Dictionaries
Webster Dictionary
• Slackening
• Slackened
• Slacken
Lexicons
• ܪܦܐ

(1):

(a.) To become slack; to be made less tense, firm, or rigid; to decrease in tension; as, a wet cord slackens in dry weather.

(2):

(a.) To be remiss or backward; to be negligent.

(3):

(a.) To end; to cease; to desist; to slake.

(4):

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

(5):

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

(6):

(v. t.) To neglect; to be remiss in.

(7):

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

(8):

(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.

(9):

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

(10):

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

(11):

(a.) To abate; to become less violent.

(12):

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

(13):

(v. t.) To render slack; to make less tense or firm; as, to slack a rope; to slacken a bandage.