slacken

Object

• bolt: With distributor clamp bolt slackened off you can gradually rotate the body to advance or retard the timing.
• pace: Repeated interruptions were accordingly experienced to the advance of the leading column, by messages to halt or slacken pace.
• speed: He thought awhile, and then asked his crew if it was not time to slacken speed.
• screw: Having stripped the wires ready, slacken the screw of the appropriate connection terminal.
• nut: With the dustpan underneath the joint, use the other wrench to slacken the nut which holds the radiator to the valve.
• rope: Then a sudden dash forward to slacken the rope and drop the weight with an abrupt thud.

Modifying Another Word

• somewhat: Considering that I did over a dozen in November, it's fair to say that I've somewhat slackened the pace.
• never: The pace never slackens; indeed, the sound never varies either.
• then: The vessel is then slackened down to towing speed.
• not: By now the rear wheel had been loosened, after telling the poor chap he was trying to tighten it not slacken it.
• just: In addition, the whole device could be slid off the carriage by slackening just one lever.
• n't: Pull belts and buckles tight and check them before each journey to ensure they have n't slackened off.

Followed by an intransitive particle

off: With the flood slackening off in the tidal River Dee we get ready to go.

Followed by a transitive particle

• off: Slacken off the top two bolts holding the dynamo to the engine.
• up: Round about the hour of ten, the French prison official tends to slacken up a bit.

Particle object:

bolt: Slacken off the clamp bolts on each fork leg.

Preposition: in

pace: That did not mean, the Prime Minister and others made clear, any slackening in the pace of change.

Preposition: of

• tempo: It encouraged a slackening of tempo in delivering the action on which the assessment of remote risk actually depended.
• effort: Not, surely, to induce any slackening of effort or vigilance.