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foreslack

foreslack is the alternative form of forslack.

Meaning of forslack

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive, rare) To slack up; be or grow slack; pall.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To 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

Forms of foreslack

third-person singular presentforeslacks
present participleforeslacking
past participleforeslacked
pastforeslacked

Origin of foreslack

Meaning unrelated to fore-, but spelling influenced by this prefix.

Questions about foreslack

What is foreslack the alternative form of?
Foreslack is the alternative form of forslack.

Words near foreslack in the dictionary

  1. foreskinned
  2. foreskinning
  3. foreskins
  4. foreskirt
  5. foreskirts
  6. foreslack
  7. foreslacked
  8. foreslacking
  9. foreslacks
  10. foreslain
  11. foreslash

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Adapted from Wiktionary: foreslack (page history and authors); forslack (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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