slack

• make less active or intense
• become less in amount or intensity
• Weak
• a noticeable deterioration in performance or quality
• lacking in rigor or strictness
• not tense or taut
• Lax
• a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
• make less active or fast
• dust consisting of a mixture of small coal fragments and coal dust and dirt that sifts out when coal is passed over a sieve
• a stretch of water without current or movement
• the quality of being loose (not taut)
• a cord or rope or cable that is hanging loosely
• avoid responsibilities and work, be idle
• be inattentive to, or neglect
• release tension on
• become slow or slower
• cause to heat and crumble by treatment with water
• flowing with little speed as e.g. at the turning of the tide
• Small coal
• A valley, or small, shallow dell
• Remiss
• Not violent, rapid, or pressing
• Slackly
• The part of anything that hangs loose, having no strain upon it
• Residential area (city, town, village) in France in Nord-Pas-de-Calais

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