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forslacks

forslacks is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 forslacks

What is forslacks the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Forslacks is the third-person singular simple present indicative of forslack.

Words near forslacks in the dictionary

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

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