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forslacked

forslacked is the simple past and past participle 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

Questions about forslacked

What is forslacked the simple past and past participle of?
Forslacked is the simple past and past participle of forslack.

Words near forslacked in the dictionary

  1. forskaliid
  2. forskaliids
  3. forskolin
  4. forskolins
  5. forslack
  6. forslacked
  7. forslacking
  8. forslacks
  9. forsleep
  10. forsling
  11. forslinging

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