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slackening

noun as in let-up

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Here was no two-miles plod back again over the burning asphalt, slackening every nerve that had been braced up by the bathe.

In the meantime, the speed was slackening, and by and by the harsh tolling of the locomotive bell echoed among the pines.

Scarcely slackening his pace he started up the long road by the hill.

After a time the animals seemed to him to be slackening their speed.

All this makes the slackening of vigor toward the end of a long novel comprehensible.

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On this page you'll find 14 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to slackening, such as: abatement, decline, decrease, discount, ebb, and reduction.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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