Slacken vs Unbend - What's the difference?
slacken | unbend | Related terms |
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.
To free from flexure; to make, or allow to become, straight; to loosen.
To remit from a strain or from exertion; to set at ease for a time; to relax.
* Shakespeare
To unfasten, as sails, from the spars or stays to which they are attached for use.
To cast loose or untie, as a rope.
To cease to be bent; to become straight or relaxed.
To relax in exertion, attention, severity, or the like; hence, to indulge in mirth or amusement.
*1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter VI
*:He spent the afternoon shaping a swagger-stick from the branch of jarrah and talking with Miss La Rue, who had sufficiently unbent toward him to notice his existence.
Slacken is a related term of unbend.
As verbs the difference between slacken and unbend
is that slacken is to gradually decrease in intensity or tautness; to become slack while unbend is to free from flexure; to make, or allow to become, straight; to loosen.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
Anagrams
*unbend
English
Verb
- to unbend a bow
- to unbend the mind from study or care
- You do unbend your noble strength.