slacken

Here was no two-miles plod back again over the burning asphalt, slackening every nerve that had been braced up by the bathe.
Mushroom Town|Oliver Onions
In the meantime, the speed was slackening, and by and by the harsh tolling of the locomotive bell echoed among the pines.
The Girl From Keller's|Harold Bindloss
Scarcely slackening his pace he started up the long road by the hill.
Patchwork|Anna Balmer Myers
After a time the animals seemed to him to be slackening their speed.
The Pony Rider Boys in Texas|Frank Gee Patchin

All this makes the slackening of vigor toward the end of a long novel comprehensible.
Seeing Things at Night|Heywood Broun

British Dictionary definitions for slacken

slacken

/ (ˈslækən) /

verb (often foll by off)

to make or become looser

to make or become slower, less intense, etc

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