laxen
English
Verb
laxen (third-person singular simple present laxens, present participle laxening, simple past and past participle laxened)
- (transitive, intransitive) To make or become lax
- 1967, The Lutheran Witness, volume 86-87, page 106:
- Listing three phenomena of our day which marked past revolutions — increased crime rate, laxening sexual morals, loosened family ties — Dr. Possony remarked: "Things that would have raised the roof 20 years earlier are considered perfectly acceptable in a prerevolutionary period. […] "
- 2007, Erika Mailman, Woman of Ill Fame, page 245:
- His face, as near as I could see in the bruises and steady streams of blood, grimaced and laxened.
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Derived terms
German
Adjective
laxen
- inflection of lax:
- strong genitive masculine/neuter singular
- weak/mixed genitive/dative all-gender singular
- strong/weak/mixed accusative masculine singular
- strong dative plural
- weak/mixed all-case plural
Spanish
Swedish
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