Crossword clues for slackened
slackened
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Slack \Slack\, Slacken \Slack"en\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Slacked, Slackened; p. pr. & vb. n. Slacking, Slackening.] [See Slack, a.]
To become slack; to be made less tense, firm, or rigid; to decrease in tension; as, a wet cord slackens in dry weather.
To be remiss or backward; to be negligent.
To lose cohesion or solidity by a chemical combination with water; to slake; as, lime slacks.
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To abate; to become less violent.
Whence these raging fires Will slacken, if his breath stir not their flames.
--Milton. To lose rapidity; to become more slow; as, a current of water slackens.
To languish; to fail; to flag.
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To end; to cease; to desist; to slake. [Obs.]
That through your death your lineage should slack.
--Chaucer.They will not of that firste purpose slack.
--Chaucer.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: slacken)
Usage examples of "slackened".
The main-sheet was gradually slackened, the great sail took the wind and added its powerful action to that of the fore-sails.
But when he heard the cheering and saw the waving crowd up the hill, Yang had slackened his stride to allow Zhoa to run on ahead.
While putting these questions to myself, I slackened my pace, and fixed my eyes on the great gate, which I just perceived.
Ellis bit out, and left, banging the door of the suite as he left, and she slackened, looking at her croissant without real interest.
The DUNCAN appeared to glide over a long prairie, which Paganel justly compared to the Pampas, and her speed slackened a little.
His grip on her slackened, just for an instant, but hesitation is usually fatal.
But slowly his grip slackened and then, his face white with anger, he let her go and took one step back from the wagon.
The robe slackened at the shoulders: with a two-handed gesture of explanation or disclosure she strained the frilled divide.
The rain had slackened to a kind of misty drizzle wreathing down among the trees.
The rope that had slackened until it was lost in the whitecaps suddenly snapped taut, jerking the Murgo scow askew.
The drizzle slackened as evening approached, though the sky remained cloudy.
He was out again in less than a second, and the crab never slackened its steady pace.
Sometimes, in the instants when the pull slackened, he had time to feel a third force struggling here between that black, blind downward suck that dragged at him and his own sick, frantic effort to fight clear, a third force- that was weakening the black drag so that he had moments of lucidity when he stood free on the brink of the ocean and felt the sweat roll down his face and was aware of his laboring heart and how gaspingly breath tortured his lungs, and he knew he was fighting with every atom of himself, body and mind and soul, against the intangible blackness sucking him down.
The column rode for nearly a half hour, then slackened pace as the horses began to tire.
Shortly the action slackened, as combatants came to face opponents of more equal skill and cunning.