relax
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- (transitive & intransitive) 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.
- (transitive) If you relax a rule, you make it less strict.
- The king relaxed the laws that the people protested against.