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relax English

Meaning relax meaning

What does relax mean?
Definitions in simple English

relax

If you relax, you stop working, worrying, etc., and you rest or have fun. People come here to relax, have a beer, and talk with friends. If you don't relax your shoulders, you'll have a sore neck. If you relax a rule, you make it less strict. The king relaxed the laws that the people protested against.

relax

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 make less taut relax the tension on the rope (= loosen, loose) become loose or looser or less tight The noose loosened the rope relaxed cause to feel relaxed A hot bath always relaxes me 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 make less severe or strict The government relaxed the curfew after most of the rebels were caught become less severe or strict The rules relaxed after the new director arrived (= slacken) make less active or fast He slackened his pace as he got tired Don't relax your efforts now

Synonyms relax synonyms

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Topics relax topics

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Conjugation relax conjugation

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relax · verb

Examples relax examples

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Simple sentences

Just relax.
I just want to sit on the beach and relax for a week.
The doctor told her to relax.
I want a massage. I need to relax.
Please relax.
If you stop and relax, this will relieve the tension and stress in your shoulders.
Forget the anxieties of life and learn to relax.
Listen to this music and relax.
Why don't you sit down and relax?
You'd better relax a bit.
Did she come here to relax?
It is finally all over. Now we can relax.
I had no chance to relax there.
Take a deep breath and then relax.
It takes time to relax.
Relax.
Relax!
Relax, it's just a scarecrow.
It's hard to relax when I have a headache.
To relax, breathe slowly.

Movie subtitles

Framework will be OK, calm down, relax. Calm down!
Illyana? Relax, relax, relax.
Just relax.
Okay, relax. Relax your leg.
Relax your leg. Okay.
Just try to relax.
Relax. Josh just popped his I.V.
Whoa! Relax. I'm not here to arrest you.
All right, everybody relax.
Would everyone just relax?
Shelagh. it really is important that you relax and enjoy these last few weeks of pregnancy.
Now, just sit back and relax.
Relax and open your pores.
Relax. One, two, three.
No! - Then relax.
We businessmen have to relax some time, don't we?
If you want to relax, you can stay home and wash these dishes.
Relax, Lisa. Relax.
I insist that you relax, please.
Take a couple of days off and relax.
Relax and have a glass of wine.
Come on. You sit there and I'll relax here. You know, Toppy, you're a funny little fellow.
Now, now, Toppy, relax, relax.
JUST RELAX, OKAY? ALL RIGHT. THAT WAS IT.
RELAX.
Relax, relax, relax.
Just relax. Calm down for me, Kurt, all right?
Okay, relax.
Relax your leg.
Um. Relax.

News and current affairs

The pot could be further sweetened by offers to relax existing sanctions and provide a security guarantee if Iran remains non-nuclear.
So Trichet should relax, stop threatening others, and let the economic slowdown do the work for him.
Early on, the government proposed legislation to increase labor market flexibility and relax constraints on firing rules.
For migration to continue at this pace, China will have to relax the long-entrenched strictures of its hukou, or household registration system, which limits labor-market flexibility by tethering workers and their benefits to their birthplace.
This is an important achievement, but it should not be taken as a signal to relax.
If traffic is stalled for hours and no one else is making progress, we tend to relax and accept the situation resignedly.
Even if Abe manages to relax the amendment requirements - no easy feat, given the likelihood that a popular referendum would reveal weak public support - he will probably have to leave the change to his successor.
Legislatures are under pressure to relax these constraints.
French politicians have been the most aggressive in putting political pressure on the ECB to relax its interest-rate normalization policy.
Governments can't legislate happiness or ban depression, but public policy can play a role in ensuring that people have time to relax with friends, and pleasant places to do it.
Relax, the Fund will bail us out: seems to be the motto.
Kiev now possesses a lively cafe life, and bright public places where people can relax and enjoy life.
More fundamentally, is the day approaching when, thanks to so many smart people and smarter computers, financial markets really do become perfect, and we can just sit back, relax, and assume that all assets are priced correctly?
But when tensions relax, the idea of taking up arms again becomes painful and unsupportable inasmuch as it means a return to the familiar and terrible experience of suffering.
We must not relax these efforts.
Indeed, eurozone countries should not relax their reform efforts on the assumption that ECB bond purchases will solve their problems.
The problem is that for poor economies, raising the capital needed to relax binding growth constraints is difficult.
Governance writ small focuses instead on those institutional arrangements that can best relax the constraints on growth.
Our girls and young women are unable to relax.
But that does not mean that we can relax.

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