Слово "slacken". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

The rain had not stopped, but it was finally slackening.

He just felt a faint slackening of the pressure of the line and he commenced to pull on it gently with his right hand.

It was a sign of his good disposition that he did not slacken at all in his intention of carrying out Dorothea's design of the cottages.

The rain had not stopped, but it was finally slackening.

The pains came quite regularly, then slackened off.

The play-hour in the evening I thought the pleasantest fraction of the day at Lowood: the bit of bread, the draught of coffee swallowed at five o’clock had revived vitality, if it had not satisfied hunger: the long restraint of the day was slackened; the schoolroom felt warmer than in the morning—its fires being allowed to burn a little more brightly, to supply, in some measure, the place of candles, not yet introduced: the ruddy gloaming, the licensed uproar, the confusion of many voices gave one a welcome sense of liberty.

Once outside on the road, his pace slackened.

It had no advantage of situation; but had been very much smartened up by the present proprietor; and, such as it was, there could be no possibility of the two friends passing it without a slackened pace and observing eyes.—Emma's remark was—

She slackened her pace a little.