Slacked vs Slackened - What's the difference?
slacked | slackened |
(slack)
(uncountable) Small coal; coal dust.
(countable) A valley, or small, shallow dell.
(uncountable) The part of anything that hangs loose, having no strain upon it.
(countable) A tidal marsh or shallow, that periodically fills and drains.
Lax; not tense; not hard drawn; not firmly extended.
Weak; not holding fast.
Remiss; backward; not using due diligence or care; not earnest or eager.
* Bible, 2 Peter iii. 9
Not violent, rapid, or pressing.
* {{quote-book, year=1928, author=Lawrence R. Bourne
, title=Well Tackled!
, chapter=3 (slang, West Indies) vulgar; sexually explicit, especially in dancehall music
Slackly.
To slacken.
* Robert South
(obsolete) To mitigate; to reduce the strength of.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.7:
to procrastinate; to be lazy
to refuse to exert effort
To lose cohesion or solidity by a chemical combination with water; to slake.
(slacken)
To gradually decrease in intensity or tautness; to become slack.
* 1900 , , The House Behind the Cedars , Chapter I,
* 1908 ,
To make slack, less taut, or less intense.
* 1986 , Mari Sandoz, The Horsecatcher?
To deprive of cohesion by combining chemically with water; to slake.
As verbs the difference between slacked and slackened
is that slacked is (slack) while slackened is (slacken).slacked
English
Verb
(head)slack
English
Noun
- (Raymond)
- The slack of a rope or of a sail.
Synonyms
* culm * (tidal marsh) sloughDerived terms
* (coal dust) nutty slackAdjective
(er)- a slack rope
- a slack hand
- slack in duty or service
- The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness.
- Business is slack .
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Synonyms
* slow, moderate, easyDerived terms
* slack-jawedAdverb
(-)- slack dried hops
Verb
(en verb)- In this business of growing rich, poor men should slack their pace.
- Ne did she let dull sleepe once to relent, / Nor wearinesse to slack her hast, but fled / Ever alike [...].
- Lime slacks .
Derived terms
* skive offAnagrams
* *slackened
English
Verb
(head)slacken
English
Verb
(en verb)- The pace slackened .
- During this interlude, Warwick, though he had slackened his pace measurably, had so nearly closed the gap between himself and them as to hear the old woman say, with the dulcet negro intonation:...
- He seemed tired, and the Rat let him rest unquestioned, understanding something of what was in his thoughts; knowing, too, the value all animals attach at times to mere silent companionship, when the weary muscles slacken and the mind marks time.
- Elk slackened the rope so he could walk farther away, and together they went awkwardly up the trail toward the grassy little flat...
- to slack lime