v
(transitive) To lower, as in condition in life, office, rank, etc., so as to cause pain or hurt feelings; to degrade, to depress, to humble, to humiliate.
v
To alight; to land, to descend and rest.
v
(intransitive, slang) To relax; to lie back.
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(intransitive, slang) To relax or take time out; to calm down.
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(informal) To become less excited, intense, or active; to exercise self-restraint.
v
To become defunct or nonexistent.
v
(transitive) To oppress, persecute, or subjugate.
v
(intransitive, informal) For an actor to forget his or her lines while performing.
v
(nautical, transitive) To loosen or slacken the tension on a line.
v
(transitive, intransitive) to reduce pressure; to become less serious
v
(informal, intransitive) To reduce one's speed.
v
To hang loose without stiffness; to bend down, as flexible bodies; to be loose, yielding, limp.
v
Alternative form of forslack [(intransitive, rare) To slack up; be or grow slack; pall.]
v
(transitive, obsolete) To conceal; hide.
v
(transitive, archaic) To waste away through suffering or through torment.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To exhaust (oneself) with singing.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To be slack in; neglect by idleness; relax; render slack; delay; lose or spoil by slackness.
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(transitive) To lose, miss, neglect, spoil, or waste through sloth.
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(transitive, obsolete) To lose, neglect, or destroy by sluggishness.
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(transitive, obsolete) To entice; seduce.
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(transitive) To destroy; ruin; lose.
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(transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To blacken; make or become swart or swarthy; sunburn.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To burn up.
v
(transitive, archaic poetic or obsolete) To exhaust by labour; overwork.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To pour out.
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(intransitive, obsolete) To boil away.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To waste; waste completely; lay waste to; desolate.
v
(intransitive, obsolete) To wither; decay; fade.
v
(informal, intransitive, or transitive with on or with) To use sparingly or carefully.
n
The therapeutic loosening of the fibers of a diseased nerve trunk.
v
(transitive) To cause to lag; to slacken.
v
(rare, intransitive) To become lank.
n
Alternative form of lapse rate [(meteorology) The rate of change in an atmospheric variable, especially temperature, with increase of height.]
n
(machining, mechanical) Looseness between fitted parts, either intentional (as allowance) or unintentional (from error or wear).
v
Alternative spelling of lask [(intransitive, obsolete) To have loose bowels; to suffer from diarrhoea.]
adj
Loose; not tight or taut.
n
The act or process of making or becoming lax
v
(rare, nonstandard, transitive, intransitive) To make or become lazed or lazy
v
To thin out (a fuel-air mixture): to reduce the fuel flow into the mixture so that there is more air or oxygen.
n
A varying degree or amount of freedom or flexibility.
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(idiomatic) to relax and be carefree
v
(idiomatic) To relax and enjoy oneself.
n
A pause or period of slackening.
v
To relax, to exert less effort
v
(idiomatic) To become less serious and more cheerful or casual; to relax.
v
To cause to become limber; to make flexible or pliant.
v
(intransitive, obsolete) To become calm.
v
To live so as to subdue or refute.
n
(idiomatic, by extension, chiefly in the plural) A small job that needs to be done, or minor problem that needs to be resolved, before a task can be considered complete.
n
Obsolete form of looseness. [The quality or fact of being free from rigidity, attachment or restraint; not tight, not firmly attached or taut.]
v
(transitive with with) Become impatient.
v
To become less guarded; to allow oneself to become more vulnerable.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To put out of joint; to luxate.
v
(intransitive) To become unconscious; to pass out.
v
(mathematics) To act as a slack variable, converting an inequality into an equality.
v
(transitive, idiomatic) To dispel.
v
(transitive, US) To make someone or something become quieter.
v
(transitive, Britain) To make someone or something become quieter.
v
(transitive) To make something (such as codes and regulations) more lenient.
adj
Obsolete form of relaxed. [(obsolete, physiology) Made slack or feeble; weak, soft.]
v
(intransitive) To slacken; to abate.
v
(idiomatic, informal) To cease worrying about something; to not be concerned or troubled by worries.
adj
(obsolete) loose; light
adj
Somewhat or partly loose.
v
(intransitive, archaic) To die.
v
To lose cohesion or solidity by a chemical combination with water; to slake.
v
To decrease in intensity; to ease off; to diminish; to die down.
v
(intransitive) To slacken or lessen; to become less intense.
n
The act by which something slackens; loss of speed, tautness, etc.
v
(intransitive, obsolete) To slacken; to become relaxed or loose.
v
Obsolete spelling of slacken [(intransitive) To gradually decrease in intensity or tautness; to become slack.]
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(dialectal) To slake; allay; cool; quench; extinguish.
n
A lessening of performance or achievement.
v
(transitive) To make (something) run, move, etc. less quickly; to reduce the speed of.
v
(idiomatic, colloquial) To slow; to slow down; to decelerate.
n
Alternative form of slowdown. [A reduction in speed, or a decrease in the level of production, etc.]
v
To become less committed to something.
adj
(botany) Not adhering; loose.
adj
loosening (of strictness of contractual terms), through gradual dissolution of binding obligations (as of a previously agreed-upon contract)
v
(informal, idiomatic) To go from a standing position to a sitting one.
v
(idiomatic) To relax or rest.
v
To relax by sitting or lying down.
v
(mathematics) To act as a slack variable, converting an inequality into an equality.
v
(intransitive, colloquial) To relax.
v
(intransitive) To calm down.
v
To remove the stiffness from; to relax; to make pliant.
v
(informal) To relax in a slack attitude, not moving much.
v
Of a shirt, to not tuck into the pants; to wear in a casual manner.
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