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• v  become slow or slower
• v  make less active or fast
  He slackened his pace as he got tired
• v  become looser or slack
  the rope slackened
• v  make slack as by lessening tension or firmness

• This happens commonly, especially during hot summer days, when the demand for power created by all those air conditioners can cause power lines to slacken.
• Under a lesser Pope, the wind of change at the council might well slacken, but it could not die.
• Despite such pressures, however, "the decade of the environment" got off to a good start last year and the pace seems unlikely to slacken.

• slow
• slow down
• slow up
• slack
• slack up
• relax
• remit

News & Articles

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• Review of out-of-state enrollment cap underway
  The UNC Board of Governors might slacken a long-standing rein on admitting out-of-state students to UNC-system campuses next year, joining a nationwide debate among universities on nonresident enrollment.
  June 20, 2013 - The Daily Tar Heel
• Board of Governors reviews out-of-state enrollment cap
  The UNC Board of Governors might slacken a long-standing rein on admitting out-of-state students to UNC-system campuses next year, joining a nationwide debate among universities on nonresident enrollment.
  June 20, 2013 - The Daily Tar Heel

Quotes

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• Wen Jiabao in Boston Globe
  While stressing the importance of domestic demand, we must not slacken efforts to promote exports,said Wen.
• P Chidambaram in Bloomberg
  We must ensure that the instrument of interest rates moderate inflation and at the same time does not dampen growth,Chidambaram said today. "We have to ensure industrial growth does not slacken."