verb
cause to feel relaxed
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A hot bath always relaxes me
• Syn: ↑relax, ↑unstrain, ↑loosen up, ↑unwind, ↑make relaxed
• Derivationally related forms: ↑relaxant (for: ↑relax), ↑relaxation (for: ↑relax), ↑relaxer (for: ↑relax)
• Hypernyms: ↑affect
• Hyponyms: ↑unbend
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something
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Somebody ——s somebody
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Something ——s somebody
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The performance is likely to unlax Sue
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\\|ən|laks\ verb (-ed/-ing/-es) : relax
lie in the hot sun, feeling yourself gradually unlax — Bennett Cerf
: to gradually relieve the tension in
took only a few minutes of the caressing air of Rome … to unlax cramped muscles — Kay Halle
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/un laks"/, v.t., v.i.
Slang. to relax; rest.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.