slacken

Verb
  1. Become slow or slower (synset 200441535)
    "Production slowed"
    hypernym: weaken - become weaker
    synonym: slack, slow, slow down, slow up
  2. Make less active or fast (synset 200442167)
    "He slackened his pace as he got tired"; "Don't relax your efforts now"
    hypernym: decrease, lessen, minify - make smaller
    synonym: relax, slack, slack up
  3. Become looser or slack (synset 200422361)
    "the rope slackened"
    hypernym: weaken - become weaker
  4. Make slack as by lessening tension or firmness (synset 200422078)
    cause: slacken - become looser or slack
    hypernym: loose, loosen - make loose or looser
    hyponym: douse, dowse - slacken
    synonym: remit

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