SLACKEN
Dictionary entry overview: What does slacken mean?
• SLACKEN (verb)
The verb SLACKEN has 4 senses:
1. become slow or slower
2. make less active or fast
3. become looser or slack
4. make slack as by lessening tension or firmness
Familiarity information: SLACKEN used as a verb is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• SLACKEN (verb)
Meaning:
Become slow or slower
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
slow up; slacken; slow down; slow; slack
Context example:
Production slowed
Hypernyms (to "slacken" is one way to...):
weaken (become weaker)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Meaning:
Make less active or fast
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
slack up; slacken; slack; relax
Context examples:
He slackened his pace as he got tired / Don't relax your efforts now
Hypernyms (to "slacken" is one way to...):
decrease; lessen; minify (make smaller)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Become looser or slack
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Context example:
the rope slackened
Hypernyms (to "slacken" is one way to...):
weaken (become weaker)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Also:
slacken off (become less intense)
Meaning:
Make slack as by lessening tension or firmness
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
slacken; remit
Hypernyms (to "slacken" is one way to...):
loose; loosen (make loose or looser)
Cause:
slacken (become looser or slack)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "slacken"):
douse; dowse (slacken)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
