## Meanings
1. To rest and become calm, free from worry or effort.
2. To make someone feel calm and free from stress.
3. To make a rule or control less strict, or to become less strict.
4. To make a part of the body less tight or tense.

## Examples
- I relaxed in the hot tub with some friends.
- A hot bath always relaxes me.
- The government relaxed the rules after the protests ended.
- Take a deep breath and relax your shoulders.

## Antonyms
- excite
- stress

## Derived Forms
- chillax
- overrelax
- prerelax
- relaxable
- relaxacon
- relaxase
- relaxative
- relaxin
- relaxion
- relaxographic
- relaxography
- relaxometry

## Related Forms
- relaxation

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: relaxen
- Root: relaxer
- Root: relaxāre

## Etymology
From Middle English relaxen, from Old French relaxer, from Latin relaxāre (“relax, loosen, open”), from re- (“back”) + laxāre (“loosen”), from laxus (“loose, free”). By surface analysis, re- + lax (“open, free, loose”).

## AI Etymology
Relax comes from Middle English relaxen, from Old French relaxer, from Latin relaxāre (“relax, loosen, open”), from re- (“back”) + laxāre (“loosen”), from laxus (“loose, free”). By surface analysis, re- + lax (“open, free, loose”). Modern senses include to rest and become calm, free from worry or effort. and to make someone feel calm and free from stress.. The wider word family includes derivatives such as chillax, overrelax, prerelax, relaxable, relaxacon, and relaxase and related forms such as relaxation.

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