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Noun slackening has 1 sense

• slackening(n = noun.event) loosening, relaxation - an occurrence of control or strength weakening; "the relaxation of requirements"; "the loosening of his grip"; "the slackening of the wind"
is a kind of weakening
has particulars: thaw
Derived form verb slacken₄

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slackening

abatement, allayment, alleviation, arrest, assuagement, attenuation, attrition, blunting, calming, check, damping, deadening, debilitation, deceleration, delay, demulsion, detention, devitalization, dilution, diminution, drag, dulcification, dulling, ease-off, ease-up, easing, effemination, enervation, enfeeblement, evisceration, exhaustion, extenuation, falling-off, fatigue, flagging, holdup, hushing, inanition, lag, languishment, leniency, lessening, letdown, letup, lightening, loosening, lulling, minus acceleration, mitigation, modulation, mollification, obstruction, pacification, palliation, quietening, quieting, reduction, relaxation, remission, retardation, retardment, setback, slack-up, slowdown, slowing, slowing down, slowup, softening, soothing, subduement, tempering, thinning, tranquilization, weakening

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slackening

Slowness

N slowness, languor, drawl, creeping, lentor, retardation, slackening, delay, claudication, jog trot, dog trot, mincing steps, slow march, slow time, slow goer, slow coach, slow back, lingerer, loiterer, sluggard, tortoise, snail, poke, dawdle, slow, slack, tardy, dilatory, gentle, easy, leisurely, deliberate, gradual, insensible, imperceptible, glacial, languid, sluggish, slow paced, tardigrade, snail-like, creeping, reptatorial, slowly, leisurely, piano, adagio, largo, larghetto, at half speed, under easy sail, at a foots pace, at a snail's pace, at a funeral pace, in slow time, with mincing steps, with clipped wings, haud passibus aequis, gradually, gradatim, by degrees, by slow degrees, by inches, by little and little, step by step, one step at a time, inch by inch, bit by bit, little by little, seriatim, consecutively, dum Roma deliberat Saguntum perit, at a glacial pace.

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