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slacken

English

  1. 🔊 make slack as by lessening tension or firmness
  2. 🔊 become looser or slack
    “the rope slackened”
  3. 🔊 make less active or fast
    “He slackened his pace as he got tired”
  4. 🔊 become slow or slower
    “Production slowed”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 aflojar to slacken, to unclench

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