English

Alternative forms

• foreslack

Verb

forslack ‎(third-person singular simple present forslacks, present participle forslacking, simple past and past participle forslacked)

1. (intransitive, rare) To slack up; be or grow slack; pall.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To be slack in; neglect by idleness; relax; render slack; delay; lose or spoil by slackness.

   But they were virgins all, and love eschewed / That might forslack the charge to them foreshewed. ― Spenser.

   The official thinking to foreslacke no time, taking counsell with his fellowes, laide hands uppon this Peter, and brought him before the inquisitor. ― Foze.