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Relaxed   /rɪlˈækst/  /rilˈækst/   Listen
Relaxed

adjective
1.
Without strain or anxiety.  "A relaxed and informal discussion"


Relax

verb
(past & past part. relaxed; pres. part. relaxing)
1.
Become less tense, rest, or take one's ease.  Synonyms: decompress, loosen up, slow down, unbend, unwind.  "Let's all relax after a hard day's work"
2.
Make less taut.  Synonym: unbend.
3.
Become loose or looser or less tight.  Synonyms: loose, loosen.  "The rope relaxed"
4.
Cause to feel relaxed.  Synonyms: loosen up, make relaxed, unlax, unstrain, unwind.
5.
Become less tense, less formal, or less restrained, and assume a friendlier manner.  Synonym: loosen up.
6.
Make less severe or strict.  Synonym: loosen.
7.
Become less severe or strict.  Synonym: loosen.
8.
Make less active or fast.  Synonyms: slack, slack up, slacken.  "Don't relax your efforts now"



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"Relaxed" Quotes from Famous Books



... and then gone, a light shone in her eyes—as though some fire raging below had been swept through the entirety of her being. Her fingers that had been clutching my shoulders relaxed, and very softly her arms crept around my neck, as she murmured: "No more ...
— Wings of the Wind • Credo Harris
... at nine in the morning relaxed greatly under Francis I., successor of Louis XII. However, persons of quality dined then the latest at ten; and supper was at five or six in the evening. We may observe this in the preface to the Heptameron of the Queen of Navarre, ...
— Curiosities of Literature, Vol. II (of 3) - Edited, With Memoir And Notes, By His Son, The Earl Of Beaconsfield • Isaac D'Israeli
... breath was now very short, her articulation difficult, her throat contracted and relaxed by turns. ...
— Ringfield - A Novel • Susie Frances Harrison
... a note of disappointment in his voice which he had not the diplomacy to conceal. His hold of her hand relaxed, and she took the opportunity to ...
— A Rock in the Baltic • Robert Barr
... face from the lovely companion whom he had just made his confidant, gazed out at the dancers with an expression in which there was both sternness and a contempt for the squalid lives of the unyachted Midlanders before him. However, among them, he marked his mother; and his sombre grandeur relaxed momentarily; a more genial ...
— The Magnificent Ambersons • Booth Tarkington


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