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Word entry · 5 letters

slack

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5 lettersPronunciation /slæk/Part of speech verb, adjective, nounSorted acklsStarts with SEnds with K1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Filled answer is this word (SLACK).

Definitions

  1. cause to heat and crumble by treatment with water

Word origin

From Middle English slak, from Old English slæc (“slack”), from Proto-Germanic *slakaz. For sense of coal dust, compare slag.

Used in a sentence

  • the slack of a rope or of a sail
  • take in the slack
  • […] to make good the voids under the sleeper […] to take out "slacks" in the rail level […]

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