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Slackening
To gradually decrease in intensity or tautness; to become slack.
📖 Definitions of "Slackening"
verb
- 1
To gradually decrease in intensity or tautness; to become slack.
"The pace slackened."
- 2
To make slack, less taut, or less intense.
- 3
To deprive of cohesion by combining chemically with water; to slake.
"to slacken lime"
noun
- 1
The act by which something slackens; loss of speed, tautness, etc.
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