Usually means: Reduce or lessen in intensity.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. slacken: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. slacken: Merriam-Webster
  3. slacken: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. slacken: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. slacken: Collins English Dictionary
  6. slacken: Vocabulary.com
  7. slacken: Wordnik
  8. slacken: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. slacken: Wiktionary
  10. slacken: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. slacken: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. slacken: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. slacken: Dictionary.com
  14. slacken: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Slacken: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. slacken: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. slacken: Rhymezone
  18. Slacken: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. slacken: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. slacken: FreeDictionary.org
  21. slacken: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. slacken: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. slacken: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. slacken: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (slacken)

▸ verb:  (intransitive) To gradually decrease in intensity or tautness; to become slack.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To make slack, less taut, or less intense.
▸ verb:  To deprive of cohesion by combining chemically with water; to slake.

Similar:
slack, slow up, slow down, remit, slow, slack up, slacken off, slaken, slake, relent, more...

Opposite:
tighten, tense, contract

Types:
ease up, let up, slow down, take it easy, more...

Phrases:
slacken off, slacken off or allow to surface, opposite of slacken, more...

Adjectives:
fire, swiss, wise, current, wind, little, rate



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Similar:
slack, slow up, slow down, remit, slow, slack up, slacken off, slaken, slake, relent, more...

Opposite:
tighten, tense, contract

Types:
ease up, let up, slow down, take it easy, more...

Phrases:
slacken off, slacken off or allow to surface, opposite of slacken, more...

Adjectives:
fire, swiss, wise, current, wind, little, rate



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