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Verb slack has 8 senses
- slack - avoid responsibilities and work, be idle
--1 is one way to fiddle, shirk, shrink from, goldbrick
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- slack - be inattentive to, or neglect; "He slacks his attention"
--2 is one way to neglect
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- slack - release tension on; "slack the rope"
--3 is one way to loosen, loose
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- slack, slacken, slack up, relax - make less active or fast; "He slackened his pace as he got tired"; "Don't relax your efforts now"
--4 is one way to decrease, lessen, minify
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- slow, slow down, slow up, slack, slacken - become slow or slower; "Production slowed"
--5 is one way to weaken
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- slake, abate, slack - make less active or intense
--6 is one way to decrease, lessen, minify
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- abate, let up, slack off, slack, die away - become less in amount or intensity; "The storm abated"; "The rain let up after a few hours"
--7 is one way to decrease, diminish, lessen, fall
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- slack, slake - cause to heat and crumble by treatment with water; "slack lime"
--8 is one way to hydrate
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