slacken speed
1slacken — verb (slackened; slackening) Date: 14th century transitive verb 1. to make less active ; slow up < slacken speed at a crossing > 2. to make slack (as by lessening tension or firmness) < slacken sail > intransitive verb …
2slacken — Ⅰ. slack [1] ► ADJECTIVE 1) not taut or held tightly in position; loose. 2) (of business or trade) not busy; quiet. 3) careless, lazy, or negligent. 4) (of a tide) neither ebbing nor flowing. ► NOUN 1) …
3slacken — also slacken off verb (I, T) 1 to gradually become slower, weaker, less active etc, or to make something do this: The heavy rain showed no signs of slackening off. | slacken your pace/speed (=go or walk more slowly): Once outside the gates, I… …
4slacken — slack|en [ˈslækən] v [I and T] written 1.) also slacken off to gradually become slower, weaker, less active etc, or to make something do this ▪ The heavy rain showed no signs of slackening off. slacken your pace/speed (=go or walk more slowly) ▪… …
5slacken — Synonyms and related words: abate, allay, alleviate, anesthetize, appease, arrest, assuage, attemper, attenuate, backpedal, backwater, bank the fire, bate, benumb, block, blunt, bog down, bottle up, brake, chasten, check, clip the wings, come… …
6Slowness — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Slowness >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 slowness slowness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 languor languor &c.(inactivity) 683 Sgm: N 1 drawl drawl Sgm: N 1 creeping creeping &c. >V. lentor …
7slowness — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Quality of taking a relatively long time Nouns 1. slowness, languor, inactivity; leisureliness; retardation; slackening; delay, lateness; walk, stroll, saunter, snail s pace, jog trot, dogtrot; slow… …
8Dorothy Levitt — on the frontispiece of The Woman and the Car Born 1883[1] Probably Hackn …
9MV George Prince ferry disaster — The MV George Prince ferry disaster was a nautical disaster that occurred in the Mississippi River in Louisiana on the morning of October 20, 1976. The ferry George Prince was struck by the Norwegian tanker SS Frosta , which was traveling upriver …
10draw rein — verb control and direct with or as if by reins (Freq. 1) rein a horse • Syn: ↑harness, ↑rein in, ↑rein • Derivationally related forms: ↑rein (for: ↑ …
