0 past simple and past participle of slacken
After they had lain hove-to for 14 hours, the wind slackened, the seas became less violent, and the small flotilla got under way again.
In the evening the wind slackened, out of the southeast; by around 8 o'clock it fell calm.
Thus, cultivation slackened, and the farms were ruined.
But it is evident that in the primary wheat producing districts, mechanization commenced as early as the 1850s, slackened off in the 1860s and took off again in the 1870s.
It would have been more helpful to his own community if statements he has made—some of them outrageous—had slackened rather than increased the tension.
As this has now slackened-off, the arrears are being rapidly overcome.
If at any time they had shown fright at aerial attack or had slackened in their production, no armed forces would have been successful.
So far from the rate of improvement in our education having slackened, it has clearly accelerated.
