Slacken is valid Scrabble Word

Is slacken a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is slacken valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

7 letters word
13 points in Scrabble
16 points in WWF

Definitions for SLACKEN in dictionary:

VERB:

to loosen or retard, also SLACK
make or become slack
reduce or decrease in speed or intensity
To render slack; to make less tense or firm; as, to slack a rope; to slacken a bandage.
To neglect; to be remiss in.
To deprive of cohesion by combining chemically with water; to slake; as, to slack lime.
To cause to become less eager; to repress; to make slow or less rapid; to retard; as, to slacken pursuit; to slacken industry.
To cause to become less intense; to mitigate; to abate; to ease.
become slow or slower
make less active or fast

become looser or slack
make slack as by lessening tension or firmness

NOUN:

A spongy, semivitrifled substance which miners or smelters mix with the ores of metals to prevent their fusion.

ADJECTIVE:

To become slack; to be made less tense, firm, or rigid; to decrease in tension; as, a wet cord slackens in dry weather.
To be remiss or backward; to be negligent.
To lose cohesion or solidity by a chemical combination with water; to slake; as, lime slacks.
To abate; to become less violent.
To lose rapidity; to become more slow; as, a current of water slackens.
To languish; to fail; to flag.
To end; to cease; to desist; to slake.

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to make less tight or taut

Words related to SLACKEN

slacked14 slackened16 slackener15 slackening17 slackens14 slacking15

Words that contain SLACKEN

slackens14 slackened16 slackener15 slackeners16 slackening17 slackenings18

How to use SLACKEN in a sentence

Here Kurt was at fault as to direction, but he did not slacken the pace for that.
She saw the lines slacken and hang loosely to every swing of the buckboard.
After tolling the Indian some little distance and coming to a turn in the road, Clark let his horse out and did not slacken his speed until our camp was reached.
And so, with a better heart, he permitted his tired horse to slacken the pace.
The moon to slacken it is safe, there is no harm in it.
Forced at last to slacken my speed and to take breath, I glanced at the paper that I still held in my hand.
Both of the workers saw that they must slacken the line a little to get it into the proper place.
His oversight and interest never seemed to slacken.
At the portal hills the horseman now disappearing over the rim of the high mesa would slacken speed.
Did the traffic slacken because the food shipped was not of the best quality? Then live stock must be improved and scientific farming promoted.

Not once did he slacken speed till he reached the corner drug store.
The iron grip about his body seemed to slacken for a moment.
At the end of another hour of hard riding they were forced to slacken their pace.
She tried to slacken her steps, but a mysterious, resistless wind seemed to bear her forward against her will.
However, Cabades did not slacken his efforts until he realized that the wall could not be successfully assailed in this way.
At any rate they are said to have lost heavily there, and from that time the attack or rather fusilade directed against Observation Hill began to slacken.
By degrees the horse seemed to slacken his wild pace.
Then, unaccountably, our resolve begins to slacken.
The young farmer sawed hard on the lines and this, added to the fact that they had had enough of the hard run, caused the animals to slacken speed.
During the latter part of 1859, the British government made efforts to induce that of France to slacken the restrictive commercial system which it had favoured.
Take ye good heed lest this calamitous day slacken the flames of your ardor, and quench your tender hopes.
She could not keep up, and he did not slacken pace when she began to fall behind.
Jack hurled himself to and fro, trying to slacken a little the bonds which held him a prisoner under such fearful circumstances.
For several hours, the pirates got no farther, though the fire did not slacken on either side.
At last they slacken their swift pace, Then stop, not far from those old tombs that mark Where lie the ashes of his royal sires.
I did not slacken my speed, either, for if they did come they would move as fast as I could, and I might be overtaken.
Even then he did not slacken his pace, but walked on hastily, for fear that those who approached him might waste his time without paying for it.
Hazael! Jesus answered, and forthwith his interest in the camel-driver began to slacken.
Then the pace began to slacken, as the gallant fighter began to turn from side to side, shaking his head and making futile breaks from port to starboard.
I was unable to slacken the pace of the horses until they dashed into the camp where we were to obtain a relay.
I promised myself that, just as I was letting my animal have its head, so I would slacken all moral reins, and let my life run uncontrolled.
We did not slacken our pace for an instant, but rode right at them with a yell, to which I lent myself with all my heart.

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