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(verb) cause to heat and crumble by treatment with water, as of lime |
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Synonyms: slake |
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Related Words: air-slake, hydrate |
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(verb) make less active or fast; "He slackened his pace as he got tired" |
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Synonyms: slack up, slacken |
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Related Words: decrease, lessen, minify |
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(verb) release tension on; "slack the rope" |
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Related Words: loose, loosen |
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(verb) be inattentive to, or neglect, as of duties: "He slacks his attention" |
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Related Words: neglect |
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(satellite adjective) flowing with little speed as e.g. at the turning of the tide; "slack water" |
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(verb) avoid responsibilities and work, be idle |
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Related Words: shirk, shrink from |
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(noun) a cord or rope or cable that is hanging loosely; "he took of the slack" |
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Related Words: cord |
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(noun) the condition of being loose (not taut); "he hadn't counted on the slackness of the rope" |
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Synonyms: slackness |
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Related Words: looseness, play |
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(noun) a stretch of water without current or movement; "suddenly they were in slack water" |
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Related Words: stretch |
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(satellite adjective) lacking in rigor or strictness; "such lax and slipshod ways are no longer acceptable"; "lax in attending classes"; "slack in maintaining discipline" |
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Synonyms: lax |
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(satellite adjective) not tense or taut; "the old man's skin hung loose and gray"; "slack and wrinkled skin"; "slack sails"; "a slack rope" |
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Synonyms: loose |
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(noun) a noticeable decline in performance: "the team went into a slump"; "a sudden slack in output"; "a drop-off in attendance"; "a falloff in automobile sales" |
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Synonyms: drop-off, falling off, falloff, slump |
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Related Words: decline, diminution |
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(verb) make less active or intense |
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Synonyms: abate, slake |
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Related Words: decrease, lessen, minify |
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(verb) become less in amount or intensity; "The storm abated" |
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Synonyms: abate, die away, let up, slack off |
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Related Words: decrease, diminish, fall, lessen |
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(verb) become slow or slower; "Production slowed" |
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Synonyms: slacken, slow, slow down, slow up |
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Related Words: weaken |
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(satellite adjective) lacking in strength or firmness or resilience; "flaccid muscles"; "took his lax hand in hers"; "gave a limp handshake"; "a limp gesture as if waving away all desire to know" G.K.Chesterton; "a slack grip" |
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Synonyms: flaccid, lax, limp |
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