Crossword-Solution: SLACKEN
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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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. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SLACKEN | anagram | CANKLES |
We have 37 clues for the answer “SLACKEN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| make slack as by lessening tension or firmness | 1 answer |
| Become looser | 1 answer |
| Ease up, as a downpour | 1 answer |
| Have more play | 1 answer |
| Make looser | 1 answer |
| make or become slack | 1 answer |
| Grow limp. | 2 answers |
| Lose tension | 2 answers |
| Lose tautness | 3 answers |
| Slow up | 7 answers |
| Lay back? | 8 answers |
| BECOME LOOSER OR SLACK | 10 answers |
| BECOME LOOSE OR LOOSER OR LESS TIGHT | 10 answers |
| Loosen up! | 14 answers |
| Ease off | 15 answers |
| Hang-up | 19 answers |
| SAG-___ | 23 answers |
| Unwind | 25 answers |
| Laze | 25 answers |
| Decelerate | 30 answers |
| Let up | 31 answers |
| Subside | 33 answers |
| Slow down | 33 answers |
| Enervate | 33 answers |
| detain | 34 answers |
| Lag | 35 answers |
| Cut Back | 43 answers |
| Wane | 45 answers |
| Mitigate | 50 answers |
| Abate | 51 answers |
| Tarnish | 58 answers |
| Loosen | 73 answers |
| Delay | 80 answers |
| Halt | 80 answers |
| Relax | 90 answers |
| Fall | 100 answers |
| Loose | 101 answers |
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Sentences with SLACKEN (5)
The mariner who keeps his mainsheet taut, And will not slacken in the gale, is like To sail with thwarts reversed, keel uppermost.
And what in me seems wanting but that I 450 May also in this poverty as soon Accomplish what they did, perhaps and more? Extol not riches, then, the toil of fools, The wise man’s cumbrance, if not snare; more apt To slacken virtue and abate her edge Than prompt her to do aught may merit praise.
Dost think that thy God, in His anger, Will trifle with nature's great laws, And slacken those sinews in languor That battled so well in His cause? Will He take back that strength He has given, Because to the pleasures of youth Thou yieldest? Nay, Godlike, in heaven, He laughs at such follies, forsooth.
Mary knew that the investigations were still being carried on, but she had a vague sense of their gradually slackening, as the actual march of time seemed to slacken.
One more huge effort, that came near to overpower me, and in which the pistol happily exploded, and I felt his grasp slacken and weakness come on his joints; his legs succumbed under his weight, and he grovelled on his knees on the stone floor.
Quotes with SLACKEN (3)
My face in thine eye, thine in mine appeares, And true plaine hearts doe in the faces rest, Where can we finde two better hemispheares Without sharpe North, without declining West? What ever dyes, was not mixt equally; If our two loves be one, or, thou and I Love so alike, that none doe slacken, none can die.
If our two loves be one, or, thou and I Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die.
Elizabeth could never address her without feeling that all the comfort of intimacy was over, and, though determined not to slacken as a correspondent, it was for the sake of what had been, rather than what was.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, WP.
Used 18 times in crossword archives (1970–2023).