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Relax   /rɪlˈæks/  /rilˈæks/   Listen
Relax

verb
(past & past part. relaxed; pres. part. relaxing)
1.
Become less tense, rest, or take one's ease.  Synonyms: decompress, loosen up, slow down, unbend, unwind.  "Let's all relax after a hard day's work"
2.
Make less taut.  Synonym: unbend.
3.
Become loose or looser or less tight.  Synonyms: loose, loosen.  "The rope relaxed"
4.
Cause to feel relaxed.  Synonyms: loosen up, make relaxed, unlax, unstrain, unwind.
5.
Become less tense, less formal, or less restrained, and assume a friendlier manner.  Synonym: loosen up.
6.
Make less severe or strict.  Synonym: loosen.
7.
Become less severe or strict.  Synonym: loosen.
8.
Make less active or fast.  Synonyms: slack, slack up, slacken.  "Don't relax your efforts now"



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"Relax" Quotes from Famous Books



... the awful pressure began to relax, for the half-dozen streams were setting steadily out of the main street, while in several spots where dragoons had sat wedged in singly two had drifted together. Then there were threes and fours, and soon after a little body of about twenty had coalesced, stood in something like order, and were ...
— In Honour's Cause - A Tale of the Days of George the First • George Manville Fenn

... sighed, send your Spirit down On those lords so cruel and proud, And soften their hearts, and relax their frown, Or else, I cried aloud, Vouchsafe Thy strength to the peasant's hand To drive them at length ...
— Speeches from the Dock, Part I • Various

... know much about this subject or any other, but my mother was a woman!" The boys in the galleries laughed, and the Quakers, sitting with their hats on their heads, looking as solemn as if the funeral of the whole human race was being held and they were the chief mourners, did not relax a muscle of their faces, but thought I to myself, "That overgrown boy, drunk or sober, has solved the whole question." Women may doubt and hesitate, uncertain whether they want to vote or not, but men have only one position to take—to withdraw their opposition, and leave it ...
— History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II • Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage

... The Canyon here was little more than a gorge whose walls rose sheer and menacing toward the narrow patch of blue sky above. He could not make up his mind to lie down and relax as Frank had done. All ...
— The Enchanted Canyon • Honore Willsie Morrow

... sat in the long winter evenings feeling such society in its cricket-voice, that raising my eyes from my book and looking gratefully towards it, the face reddened by the glow of the shining fire has seemed to relax from its staid expression and to regard me kindly! how often in the summer twilight, when my thoughts have wandered back to a melancholy past, have its regular whisperings recalled them to the calm and peaceful present! how often in the ...
— Master Humphrey's Clock • Charles Dickens


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