SLACKENS Antonyms

• increase in size, volume or significance

• to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth

• exaggerate or make bigger

• increase the volume of

• act at high speed

• move hurridly

• speed up the progress of; facilitate

• cause to occur rapidly

• increase in extent or intensity

• make more intense, stronger, or more marked

• become more intense

• make the chemically affected part of (a negative) denser or more opaque in order produce a stronger contrast between light and dark

• move faster

• make keen or more acute

• give life or energy to

• show signs of life

• give new life or energy to

• make stronger

• strengthen and support with rewards

• become stiff or stiffer

• make stiff or stiffer

• severely restrict in scope or extent

• make strong or stronger

• gain strength

• give a healthy elasticity to

• in or of a state of physical or nervous tension

• pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e.g., the vowel sound in `beat')

• taut or rigid; stretched tight

• a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time

• become stretched or tense or taut

• increase the tension on

• become tense, nervous, or uneasy

• cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious

• make tight or tighter

• become tight or tighter

• severely restrict in scope or extent

• narrow or limit