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单词 slacked
释义

slack1 /slak/

adjective
  1. Lax or loose
  2. Not firmly extended or drawn out
  3. Not holding fast
  4. Remiss
  5. Promiscuous (slang)
  6. Not strict
  7. Not eager or diligent, inattentive
  8. Not busy
  9. Not violent or rapid, slow
  10. Pronounced with wide, not tense, tongue (phonetics)
adverb
  1. In a slack manner
  2. Partially
  3. Insufficiently
noun
  1. The slack part of a rope, belt, etc
  2. A time, occasion, or place of relaxed movement or activity
  3. A slack-water haul of a net
  4. (in pl) long, loose trousers for casual wear
intransitive verb and transitive verb

To slacken

ORIGIN: OE slæc (sleac); cf Swed slak, ON slakr

slackˈen intransitive verb

  1. To become loose or less tight
  2. To be remiss
  3. To abate
  4. To become slower
  5. To fail or flag
  6. To be inactive or lax
transitive verb
  1. To make slack or less tight
  2. To loosen
  3. To slow, retard
  4. To be remiss or dilatory in
  5. To relax
  6. To slake (lime)

slackˈening noun and adjective

slackˈer noun

  1. An idler
  2. A person who is reprehensibly inactive
  3. A shirker
  4. (US) a young person taking an apathetic or cynical attitude to mainstream culture

slackˈerdom noun

slackˈly adverb

slackˈness noun

slackˈ-bake transitive verb

To half-bake

slack-handˈed adjective

Remiss

slack jaw noun (slang)

Impudent talk

slack line noun

A slack rope

slackˈlining noun

Walking along a slack rope (qv below)

slack rope noun

A loosely stretched rope for a funambulist

slack water noun

  1. Turn of the tide
  2. A stretch of still or slow-moving water

slackˈ-water adjective

Relating to slack water

cut someone some slack (esp N American informal)

To allow someone to act without undue criticism or pressure

slack away

To ease off freely

slack in stays

(of a ship, etc) slow in going about

slack off or slacken off

To ease off

slack up or slacken up

  1. To ease off
  2. To slow

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