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forslack en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /fɔː(ɹ)ˈslæk/
• /fə(ɹ)ˈslæk/

Etymology

From for- + slack.

Meanings

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:
   • 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:

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