slacken
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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.