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relax

English

  1. 🔊 cause to feel relaxed
    “A hot bath always relaxes me”
  2. 🔊 become less tense, rest, or take one's ease
    “He relaxed in the hot tub”
  3. 🔊 make less taut
    “relax the tension on the rope”
  4. 🔊 become less severe or strict
    “The rules relaxed after the new director arrived”
  5. 🔊 make less severe or strict
    “The government relaxed the curfew after most of the rebels were caught”
  6. 🔊 become less tense, less formal, or less restrained, and assume a friendlier manner
    “our new colleague relaxed when he saw that we were a friendly group”
  7. 🔊 become loose or looser or less tight
    “The noose loosened”
  8. 🔊 make less active or fast
    “He slackened his pace as he got tired”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 relajar to relax, to loosen
  2. 🔊 relajar to relax, to unwind, to chill, to chill out, to wind down, to kick back, to sit back, to loosen up, to decompress

Similar words

unstrain unlax loosen up unwind make relaxed loosen up unbend unwind decompress slow down loosen loose unbend slack slacken slack up loosen loosen loosen up abate admit admit exceptions allow allow for