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slackening

verb

Meaning

  1. To gradually decrease in intensity or tautness; to become slack.
  2. To make slack, less taut, or less intense.
  3. To deprive of cohesion by combining chemically with water; to slake.
  4. The act by which something slackens; loss of speed, tautness, etc.

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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