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Adjective relaxing has 1 sense
  1. relaxing, restful, reposeful - affording or marked by rest or repose; "the time spent was pleasant and relaxing"; "a restful night"; "a cool and reposeful glen"
    Antonym: unquiet (indirect, via quiet)
,Verb relax has 8 senses
  1. relax, loosen up, unbend, unwind, decompress, slow down - 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"
    --1 is one way to change state, turn
    Antonyms: tense, tense up
    Derived forms: noun relaxation1, noun relaxation5
    Sample sentence:
    Sam and Sue relax
  2. relax, unbend - make less tight; "relax the tension on the rope"
    --2 is one way to loosen, loose
    Derived forms: noun relaxation1, noun relaxer1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
  3. loosen, relax, loose - become loose or looser or less tight; "The noose loosened"; "the rope relaxed"
    --3 is one way to weaken
    Derived form: noun relaxation4
    Sample sentences:
    Something ----s
    Somebody ----s
  4. relax, unstrain, unlax, loosen up, unwind, make relaxed - cause to feel relaxed; "A hot bath always relaxes me"
    --4 is one way to affect
    Antonyms: tense, strain, tense up
    Derived forms: noun relaxation3, noun relaxer1, noun relaxant1
    Sample sentence:
    The performance is likely to relax Sue
  5. relax, loosen up - 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"
    --5 is one way to act, behave, do
    Derived form: noun relaxation3
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s
  6. relax, loosen - make less severe or strict; "The government relaxed the curfew after most of the rebels were caught"
    --6 is one way to change, alter, modify
    Derived form: noun relaxation7
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
  7. relax, loosen - become less severe or strict; "The rules relaxed after the new director arrived"
    --7 is one way to change
    Derived form: noun relaxation7
    Sample sentence:
    Something ----s
  8. slack, slacken, slack up, relax - make less active or fast; "He slackened his pace as he got tired"; "Don't relax your efforts now"
    --8 is one way to decrease, lessen, minify
    Derived form: noun relaxation4
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
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