slacken
verb (used with or without object)
to make or become less active, vigorous, intense, etc.
unslackening
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a word derived from
slacken.
Example Sentences
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All the time he could feel his brain working ceaselessly, like a machine running with unslackening rapidity.
From The Trespasser by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
The men with whom he had had large dealings he had treated as enemies rather than friends, ever watching them covertly with close but unslackening vigilance.
From A Millionaire of Yesterday by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
Their horses were a-lather; their lean sides tuckered, but their gait remained unslackening.
From The Law-Breakers by Ridgwell Cullum
