slacken

Already the monster, wearied by its exertions, was slackening its speed; the crew began to haul in the line, the first was got in.

And fifty or a hundred things, of weekly and daily happening, came across my mother, so that her spirit fell like slackening lime.

At the same moment their pursuers perceived the slackening of the wind and shouted in a different key.

The Hun's fire was now slackening, and in spite of the shortness of the range, decidedly erratic.