Read full poem →As fire to frost, as ease to toil, as dew
To flowerless fields, as sleep to slackening pain,
As hope to souls long weaned from hope again
Dictionary Entry
To gradually decrease in intensity or tautness; to become slack.
In a Sentence
“The pace slackened.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. slackeningoff slackeningspeed slackeningslackening withoutslackening any
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Poetry examples for “slackening”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.