Definitions
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- v. Simple past tense and past participle of slacken.
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Examples
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Zero to zero for most of the game, and when the rain slackened, both squads started scoring until time ran out for one of them.
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His taut expression slackened and he found the curve of a smile.
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Among the remaining three Districts, economic conditions were mixed in Atlanta and St. Louis, while economic activity "slackened" in Richmond.
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Conversely, those people whose ties to religious social networks slackened somewhat over this year reduced their civic involvement in all these ways.
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When he realized his very accent had changed, his jaw slackened with shock.
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The civilians screamed; Declan clenched his slackened jaw, then ordered, “If it goes, fire at will.”
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When she wriggled beneath him, his jaw slackened, his lids growing heavy.
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His jaw slackened, and a shallow breath rattled out.
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Otto Weininger, twenty-three, had published his first book, Sex and Character, a few months earlier.49 Without doubt his suicide drew attention to the book, an attention that has never slackened.
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Just when Kate thought it was hopeless, the wind slackened for the briefest of moments, dropping pressure on the life ring.
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