Dictionary Entry
relax
relax is a 5-letter English word with 17 senses as noun, intransitive verb, adjective, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To make lax or loose; to make less close, firm, rigid, tense, or the like; to slacken; to loosen; to open; as, to relax a rope or cord; to relax the muscles or sinews. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 13 · 17 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
To make lax or loose; to make less close, firm, rigid, tense, or the like; to slacken; to loosen; to open; as, to relax a rope or cord; to relax the muscles or sinews.
- 2noun
To make less severe or rigorous; to abate the stringency of; to remit in respect to strenuousness, earnestness, or effort; as, to relax discipline; to relax one's attention or endeavors.
- 3noun
Hence, to relieve from attention or effort; to ease; to recreate; to divert; as, amusement relaxes the mind.
- 4noun
To relieve from constipation; to loosen; to open; as, an aperient relaxes the bowels.
- 5intransitive verb
To become lax, weak, or loose; as, to let one's grasp relax.
- 6intransitive verb
To abate in severity; to become less rigorous.
- 7intransitive verb
To remit attention or effort; to become less diligent; to unbend; as, to relax in study.
- 8noun
Relaxation.
- 9adjective
Relaxed; lax; hence, remiss; careless.
- 10verb
cause to feel relaxed
"A hot bath always relaxes me"
- 11verb
become less tense, rest, or take one's ease
"He relaxed in the hot tub"
"Let's all relax after a hard day's work"
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- 12verb
become loose or looser or less tight
"The noose loosened"
"the rope relaxed"
- 13verb
make less taut
"relax the tension on the rope"
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- 14verb
make less active or fast
"He slackened his pace as he got tired"
"Don't relax your efforts now"
- 15verb
become less severe or strict
"The rules relaxed after the new director arrived"
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- 16verb
make less severe or strict
"The government relaxed the curfew after most of the rebels were caught"
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- 17verb
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"
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