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forslacking

forslacking is the present participle and gerund 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 forslacking

What is forslacking the present participle and gerund of?
Forslacking is the present participle and gerund of forslack.

Words near forslacking in the dictionary

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

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