slacken
verb (used with or without object)
to make or become less active, vigorous, intense, etc.
are slackening
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present progressiveof slacken.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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If not, it is because you are slackening off.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2015
Both UPS and FedEx reported that holiday shipments are slackening, while Microsoft and Compaq became the latest tech titans to blame poor earnings on a slowing home-PC market.
From Time Magazine Archive
Do not, my son: rouse them not up again When they are slackening in their attack.
From King Lear's Wife; The Crier by Night; The Riding to Lithend; Midsummer-Eve; Laodice and Dana? by Gordon Bottomley
Thursday, March 18th.—We have had an off-day to-day at the place of woods and commons, which I hope and trust means that things are slackening off.
From Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915 by Anonymous
But the world is changing, thrones and churches are slackening in their hold.
From Rest Harrow A Comedy of Resolution by Maurice Henry Hewlett
