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slack
English
- 🔊 flowing with little speed as e.g. at the turning of the tide“slack water”
- 🔊 lacking in rigor or strictness“such lax and slipshod ways are no longer acceptable”
- 🔊 not tense or taut“the old man's skin hung loose and grey”
- 🔊 a cord or rope or cable that is hanging loosely“he took up the slack”
- 🔊 the quality of being loose (not taut)“he hadn't counted on the slackness of the rope”
- 🔊 a stretch of water without current or movement“suddenly they were in a slack and the water was motionless”
- 🔊 dust consisting of a mixture of small coal fragments and coal dust and dirt that sifts out when coal is passed over a sieve
- 🔊 a noticeable deterioration in performance or quality“the team went into a slump”
- 🔊 a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
- 🔊 cause to heat and crumble by treatment with water“slack lime”
- 🔊 make less active or fast“He slackened his pace as he got tired”
- 🔊 release tension on“slack the rope”
- 🔊 be inattentive to, or neglect“He slacks his attention”
- 🔊 avoid responsibilities and work, be idle
- 🔊 make less active or intense
- 🔊 become less in amount or intensity“The storm abated”
- 🔊 become slow or slower“Production slowed”
Spanish
- 🔊 holgura slack, play