1. [v]  cause to feel relaxed; "A hot bath always relaxes me"
2. [v]  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"
3. [v]  become loose or looser or less tight; "The noose loosened"; "the rope relaxed"
4. [v]  make less tight; "relax the tension on the rope"
5. [v]  make less active or fast; "He slackened his pace as he got tired"; "Don't relax your efforts now"
6. [v]  become less severe or strict; "The rules relaxed after the new director arrived"
7. [v]  make less severe or strict; "The government relaxed the curfew after most of the rebels were caught"
8. [v]  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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1. \Re*lax"\ (r?-l?ks"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Relaxed}
   (-l?kst"); p. pr. & vb. n. {Relaxing}.] [L. relaxare; pref.
   re- re- + laxare to loose, to slacken, from laxus loose. See
   {Lax}, and cf. {Relay}, n., {Release}.]
   1. 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.
            Horror . . . all his joints relaxed.  --Milton.
            Nor served it to relax their serried files.
                                                  --Milton.
   2. 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.
            The statute of mortmain was at several times relaxed
            by the legislature.                   --Swift.
   3. Hence, to relieve from attention or effort; to ease; to
      recreate; to divert; as, amusement relaxes the mind.
   4. To relieve from constipation; to loosen; to open; as, an
      aperient relaxes the bowels.
   Syn: To slacken; loosen; loose; remit; abate; mitigate; ease;
        unbend; divert.
   

2. \Re*lax"\, v. i.
   1. To become lax, weak, or loose; as, to let one's grasp
      relax.
            His knees relax with toil.            --Pope.
   2. To abate in severity; to become less rigorous.
            In others she relaxed again, And governed with a
            looser rein.                          --Prior.
   3. To remit attention or effort; to become less diligent; to
      unbend; as, to relax in study.
   

3. \Re*lax"\, n.
   Relaxation. [Obs.] --Feltham.
   

4. \Re**lax"\, a.
   Relaxed; lax; hence, remiss; careless.