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1. Affording physical or mental rest
   - restful, reposeful

1. 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"
   - loosen up, unbend, unwind, decompress, slow down
    
2. Make less taut
   "relax the tension on the rope"
   - unbend
    
3. Become loose or looser or less tight
   "the rope relaxed"
   - loosen, loose
    
4. Cause to feel relaxed
   "A hot bath always relaxes me"
   - unstrain, unlax, loosen up, unwind, make relaxed
    
5. 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"
   - loosen up
    
6. Make less severe or strict
   "The government relaxed the curfew after most of the rebels were caught"
   - loosen
    
7. Become less severe or strict
   "The rules relaxed after the new director arrived"
   - loosen
    
8. Make less active or fast
   "Don't relax your efforts now"
   - slack, slacken, slack up

See also: relaxant, relaxation, relaxer, slumberous, slumbrous

Type of: act, affect, alter, behave, change, change state, decrease, do, lessen, loose, loosen, minify, modify, turn, weaken

Antonym: tense

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