Definition of Forslack

1. v. t. To neglect by idleness; to delay or to waste by sloth.

Definition of Forslack

1. Verb. (intransitive rare) To slack up; be or grow slack; pall. ¹

2. Verb. (transitive, obsolete) To be slack in; neglect by idleness; relax; render slack; delay; lose or spoil by slackness. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Forslack

1. to be slack [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Forslack

forsee
forseeable
forseek
forset
forshake
forshame
forshape
forshorten
forshrink
forshrunk
forshrunken
forshut
forsing
forskolin
forskolins
forslack (current term)
forslacks
forsleep
forsling
forslinger
forslip
forsloe
forsloed
forsloes
forsloth
forslouthe
forslouthed
forslow
forslowed

Literary usage of Forslack

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by Thomas Humphry Ward (1920)
"... With wondrous beauty fit to kindle love ; But they were virgins all, and love eschewed That might forslack the charge to them ..."

2. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"Aeneid, x. 720 ; xi. 412. I can find no third example of the form forsaken being thus contracted. (Not in NED.). forslack ..."

3. The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by Various Writers by Thomas Humphry Ward (1912)
"... the which were all endowed With wondrous beauty fit to kindle love ; But they were virgins all, and love eschewed That might forslack the charge to them ..."

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