forslack

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/fə(ɹ)ˈslæk//fɔː(ɹ)ˈslæk/

verb

To slack up; be or grow slack; pall.

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Meanings

verbforslack (third-person singular simple present forslacks, present participle forslacking, simple past and past participle forslacked)

present singular third person forslacks · participle present forslacking · participle past forslacked · past forslacked · alternative foreslack

  1. intransitiverareTo slack up; be or grow slack; pall.
  2. obsoletetransitiveTo be slack in; neglect by idleness; relax; render slack; delay; lose or spoil by slackness.

    But they were virgins all, and love eschewed / That might forslack the charge to them fore-shewd.

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book VII, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 45
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    The official thinking to foreslacke no time, taking counsell with his fellowes, laide hands uppon this Peter, and brought him before the inquisitor.

    1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], →OCLC

Origin

From for- + slack.

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forslack. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/forslack

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“forslack.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/forslack. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “forslack,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/forslack.

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