slack off - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (original) (raw)
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slack off (third-person singular simple present slacks off, present participle slacking off, simple past and past participle slacked off)
- (intransitive, informal) To be deliberately unproductive in one's work or study.
Emily is slacking off since this is her last semester; she completely stopped trying to make good grades. - (intransitive) To decrease in intensity; to ease off; to diminish; to die down.
Thankfully the hail slacked off after a few minutes.
to decrease in intensity
- Chinese:
Mandarin: 減少 / 减少 (zh) (jiǎnshǎo), 下降 (zh) (xiàjiàng) - Danish: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: laantua (fi)
- French: se calmer (fr), diminuer (fr)
- German: nachlassen (de)
- Japanese: 緩む (ja) (yurumu)
- Polish: zwalniać tempo impf, zwolnić tempo pf, słabnąć (pl) impf, osłabnąć (pl) pf
- Russian: ослабевать (ru) (oslabevatʹ)
- Spanish: decaer (es), disminuir (es), menguar (es), amainar (es)
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