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Slacking

noun

The evasion of work or duty. Synonyms: goldbricking, goofing off, shirking, soldiering.

Slack

verb

Avoid responsibilities and work, be idle.

Be inattentive to, or neglect.

Release tension on.

Make less active or fast. Synonyms: relax, slack up, slacken. "Don't relax your efforts now"

Become slow or slower. Synonyms: slacken, slow, slow down, slow up.

Make less active or intense. Synonyms: abate, slake.

Become less in amount or intensity. Synonyms: abate, die away, let up, slack off. "The rain let up after a few hours"

Cause to heat and crumble by treatment with water. Synonym: slake.

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"Slacking" Quotes from Famous Books

... flat in piles and rows! Then we plunged into the ruck of Fastolfe's frantic battle-corps and tore through it like a hurricane, leaving a causeway of the dead stretching far behind; no tarrying, no slacking rein, but on! on! on! far yonder in the distance lay our prey—Talbot and his host looming vast and dark like a storm-cloud brooding on the sea! Down we swooped upon them, glooming all the air with a quivering pall of dead leaves flung up by the whirlwind of our flight. In another ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... the current, at almost right angles, for Split-up; but when the sandspit, over which they had portaged, crashed at the impact of a million tons, Corliss glanced at her anxiously. She smiled and shook her head, at the same time slacking off the course. ...

— A Daughter of the Snows • Jack London