slacken

slacken is a 7-letter English word with 17 senses as adjective, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To become slack; to be made less tense, firm, or rigid; to decrease in tension; as, a wet cord slackens in dry weather. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 16 · 17 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. To become slack; to be made less tense, firm, or rigid; to decrease in tension; as, a wet cord slackens in dry weather.
2. adjective. To be remiss or backward; to be negligent.
3. adjective. To lose cohesion or solidity by a chemical combination with water; to slake; as, lime slacks.
4. adjective. To abate; to become less violent.
5. adjective. To lose rapidity; to become more slow; as, a current of water slackens.
6. adjective. To languish; to fail; to flag.
7. adjective. To end; to cease; to desist; to slake.
8. transitive verb. To render slack; to make less tense or firm; as, to slack a rope; to slacken a bandage.
9. transitive verb. To neglect; to be remiss in.
10. transitive verb. To deprive of cohesion by combining chemically with water; to slake; as, to slack lime.
11. transitive verb. To cause to become less eager; to repress; to make slow or less rapid; to retard; as, to slacken pursuit; to slacken industry.
12. transitive verb. To cause to become less intense; to mitigate; to abate; to ease.
13. noun. A spongy, semivitrifled substance which miners or smelters mix with the ores of metals to prevent their fusion.
14. verb. make slack as by lessening tension or firmness

    Synonyms: remit

15. verb. become looser or slack

    "the rope slackened"

16. verb. become slow or slower

    "Production slowed"

    Synonyms: slack, slow

17. verb. make less active or fast

    "He slackened his pace as he got tired"

    "Don't relax your efforts now"

    Synonyms: relax, slack

Synonyms

remit, slack, slow, relax

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in slacken:

cankles, snackle

Common word forms

slackens, slackened, slackener, slackening

Words from these letters

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