Slackening is valid Scrabble Word

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

10 letters word
17 points in Scrabble
22 points in WWF

Definitions for SLACKENING in dictionary:

VERB:

make or become slack
reduce or decrease in speed or intensity

NOUN:

a making less tight or taut
an occurrence of control or strength weakening

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to make less tight or taut

Words related to SLACKENING

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Words that contain SLACKENING

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How to use SLACKENING in a sentence

His careless, swinging stride became a heavy, slackening tramp, and at last he halted altogether.
We drove straight through the town at a rapid pace, avoiding the main thoroughfares as much as possible, and not slackening until we pulled up outside Millbay station.
Then as the father and the son turned homeward, slackening their pace, a long spell of silence fell between them.
Here Jim, slackening pace, took his hat off and wiped his brow.
Rafael felt a slackening of his powers of endurance, as if an irresistible languor were stealing over him.
Then, as his ear told him that the horse was slackening, he seized Mr.
Force the slackening hearth to yield light by kindling the coals to a red glow with a burning log.
The effect of many possessions, especially if they be newly acquired, in slackening moral vigour, is a proverb.
When we came to a hill, instead of slackening her pace, she would throw her weight right into the collar, and pull away straight up.
He kept on with slackening speed until close to the shore, and it would not do to go any further.

He has no whip, and seems to urge his horses forward simply by leaning forward himself, and slackening or shaking the reins over them.
Now by this time the tide was almost full, and the stream of the flood was slackening.
And yet the result of this arrangement, it would seem, must be, for a time, a decided slackening of tension.
Slackening its pace gradually, but not in time, it shot past the station, and had to back into it again.
Twice, when pauses of slackening interest made it possible, Henriot fancied he surprised another quality in this negative attitude.
Graham watched it emerge, traverse the clear moonlit valley with slackening speed, and pause at the station for its freight of passengers.
Already his pace was slackening, and sooner or later he must drop under me.
On ran the mule, seemingly not slackening speed, and to his neck, so that he should not fall off, clung the actor.
The Brazilian steamers run all night, and with no slackening of speed.
There is a distinct possibility that it represents an unwholesome slackening.
Slackening their speed but a trifle, they rounded the corner just as the sharp crack of a rifle rang out.
For the moment he held a grip on himself, but it was slackening, and in another half-minute he would have lost it and run in mere blind horror.
The weight of both brought Jim over, sliding and slipping, with his rope slackening.
She had no clue whatever to the slackening of their friendship, but she could not fail to note with pain how far asunder they had drifted.
Perhaps the wind was a point or two to the north of west, if it makes any difference, and during the intervals there was always a comparative calm or slackening of the wind.
As he passed, Bates, without slackening speed, took Dick and Greg in with one swift glance.
Yet the work went on to its accomplishment, without question, without slackening.
There was a perceptible slackening in the speed of the approaching horsemen.
Here a new idea seized him, and he hurried back to the ship, slackening his pace only when he arrived at his own doorway.
The time was splendid, any single nation was not of a speed that showed slackening and regular expulsion.
Joy, who was eager now that the two men should stake, and fearing that they were slackening pace on account of her evident weariness, insisted on taking the lead.

Similar words containing SLACKEN without suffix ing

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