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English
Verb
slaken
- Obsolete spelling of slacken.
1914, Charles Warren Stoddard, Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska:I was glad when we were very politely invited to get out of the train and walk a plank over a puddle that for a moment submerged the track; glad when we were advised to foot it over a trestle-bridge that sagged in the swift current of a swollen stream; and gladder still when our locomotive began to puff and blow and slaken its pace as we climbed up into the mouth of a ravine fragrant with the warm scents of summer--albeit we could boast but a solitary brace of cars, and these small ones, and not overcrowded at that.
1901, Charles Kingsley, Two Years Ago, Volume I:And so she swept in, with her arm round Lucia's waist; while Elsley stood looking after her, well enough satisfied with her reception of him, and only hoping that the stream of words would slaken after a while. "
Anagrams
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch slaken.
Pronunciation
Verb
slaken
- to utter (a sound, word or cry), especially a sigh; to heave; to fetch
Conjugation