slacken

I let Rostam’s harness slacken.

But there is little indication that as the weeks pass, Merchan will let the pace slacken.

And, with the tight job market starting to slacken, some predict 2024 will be the year employers finally clamp down.

At the start of an El Niño, the trade winds that usually whisk briskly across the surface of the tropical Pacific slacken.

Once the winds slacken and the seas turn calm, Italy will resume ferrying hundreds of them to Sicily to ease the overcrowding, he told state TV.