Clues for the word "SLACKEN"
We've had 14 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 19 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Your Life Choices crossword on January 05, 2025.
Definition of slacken
- a. - To become slack; to be made less tense, firm, or rigid; to decrease in tension; as, a wet cord slackens in dry weather.
- a. - To be remiss or backward; to be negligent.
- a. - To lose cohesion or solidity by a chemical combination with water; to slake; as, lime slacks.
- a. - To abate; to become less violent.
- a. - To lose rapidity; to become more slow; as, a current of water slackens.
- a. - To languish; to fail; to flag.
- a. - To end; to cease; to desist; to slake.
- v. t. - To render slack; to make less tense or firm; as, to slack a rope; to slacken a bandage.
- v. t. - To neglect; to be remiss in.
- v. t. - To deprive of cohesion by combining chemically with water; to slake; as, to slack lime.
- v. t. - To cause to become less eager; to repress; to make slow or less rapid; to retard; as, to slacken pursuit; to slacken industry.
- v. t. - To cause to become less intense; to mitigate; to abate; to ease.
- n. - A spongy, semivitrifled substance which miners or smelters mix with the ores of metals to prevent their fusion.
Referring Clues
Last Seen In
- Your Life Choices - January 05, 2025
- Daily American - May 12, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - February 15, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - August 11, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - August 11, 2022
- Washington Post Sunday - December 10, 2017
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 27, 2017
- Netword - November 05, 2016
- Netword - May 16, 2016
- New York Times - April 22, 2013
- Universal - November 12, 2010
- Thinks Daily - October 12, 2010
- Netword - January 30, 2010
- New York Times - August 28, 2008
- Thinks Daily - October 12, 2007
- New York Sun - August 24, 2006
- New York Times - November 18, 2002
- New York Times - August 02, 2001
- Guardian Prize - December 30, 2000