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slack tide | slack up | slack water | slacken | slacken off | slackening | slacker | slacking | slackly | slackness | slacks

slackening

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slackening

abatement, allayment, alleviation, arrest, assuagement, attenuation, attrition, blunting, calming, check, damping, deadening, debilitation, deceleration, delay, demulsion, detention, devitalization, dilution, diminution, drag, dulcification, dulling, ease-off, ease-up, easing, effemination, enervation, enfeeblement, evisceration, exhaustion, extenuation, falling-off, fatigue, flagging, holdup, hushing, inanition, lag, languishment, leniency, lessening, letdown, letup, lightening, loosening, lulling, minus acceleration, mitigation, modulation, mollification, obstruction, pacification, palliation, quietening, quieting, reduction, relaxation, remission, retardation, retardment, setback, slack-up, slowdown, slowing, slowing down, slowup, softening, soothing, subduement, tempering, thinning, tranquilization, weakening

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slackening

Slowness

N slowness, languor, drawl, creeping, lentor, retardation, slackening, delay, claudication, jog trot, dog trot, mincing steps, slow march, slow time, slow goer, slow coach, slow back, lingerer, loiterer, sluggard, tortoise, snail, poke, dawdle, slow, slack, tardy, dilatory, gentle, easy, leisurely, deliberate, gradual, insensible, imperceptible, glacial, languid, sluggish, slow paced, tardigrade, snail-like, creeping, reptatorial, slowly, leisurely, piano, adagio, largo, larghetto, at half speed, under easy sail, at a foots pace, at a snail's pace, at a funeral pace, in slow time, with mincing steps, with clipped wings, haud passibus aequis, gradually, gradatim, by degrees, by slow degrees, by inches, by little and little, step by step, one step at a time, inch by inch, bit by bit, little by little, seriatim, consecutively, dum Roma deliberat Saguntum perit, at a glacial pace.


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