Took it easy, with "off"

Usage examples of slacked.

It slacked yesterday enough to try a crossing, though it was still higher than I've ever seen it.

Christmas slacked his hand After a moment Brown spoke, in a tone cunning, not loud: “You’re a nigger, see?

He just looked at the woman, his jaw slacked as if he had seen a ghost.

It took two men by main strength to fetch them up, where as soon as the leashes were slacked, they sprang as one and rushed around the cotton house and through the very marks which the fugitive’s legs had left in the tall and still dewed weeds in the house’s shadow, and rushed leaping and straining back toward the road, dragging the two men for fifty yards before they succeeded in passing the leashes about a sapling and snubbing the dogs up.

She twisted around and stared out at the water as if to avoid him, but her shoulders slacked and she turned back.

Captive to her cycles, Gian savored the brief respite while he could when Angel finally slacked with relief.

He doubled the veil over his lower face, left the visor up, for the wind had slacked somewhat.

Had there been a steady breeze it would not have been so bad, but the Ghost was rolling emptily in a long sea, and with each roll the canvas flapped and boomed and the halyards slacked and jerked taut.

As the schooner paid off, the fore— and main-sheets were slacked away for fair wind.

We were already under way, all sails set and drawing, and the sheets being slacked off for a wind abeam, as the last boat lifted clear of the water and swung in the tackles.

Though his grip never slacked, not once throughout did he look at the thing they were fastening against Antryg's flesh.

The long winds from the southwest, the ship‑winds, slacked as the trade season drew to its close, and the fogs and rains settled in.

The four men with Piet and Stephen slacked their efforts as they saw the problem ahead.