relaxとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈlæks/
• 韻: -æks

動詞

relax (三人称単数 現在形 relaxes, 現在分詞 relaxing, 過去形および過去分詞形 relaxed)

1. (transitive) To calm down.
2. (transitive) To make something loose.

   to relax a rope or cord

   to relax the muscles or sinews

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book 8”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:

     Horror […] all his joynts relax'd.

3. (intransitive) To become loose.
   • 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     I relax in the living room.

4. (transitive) To make something less severe or tense.

   to relax discipline

   to relax one's attention or endeavours

5. (intransitive) To become less severe or tense.
6. (transitive) To make something (such as codes かつ regulations) more lenient.
   • 1713, Jonathan Swift, A Preface to Bishop Burnet's Introduction

     The statute of mortmain […] was at several times relaxed by the legislature.

   • 1953, “Section 2. Jurisdiction”, in Edward Samuel Corwin, editor, The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation‎^[1], page 589:

     The Court rejected the contention that the doctrine of sovereign immunity should be relaxed as inapplicable to suits for specific relief as distinguished from damage suits, saying: "The Government, as representative of the community as a whole, cannot be stopped in its tracks by any plaintiff who presents a disputed question of property or contract right."

7. (intransitive, of codes かつ regulations) To become more lenient.
8. (transitive) To relieve (something) from stress.

   Amusement relaxes the mind.

9. (transitive, dated) To relieve from constipation; to loosen; to open.

   An aperient relaxes the bowels.

反意語

• stress, excite

派生語

• relaxable
• overrelax, underrelax

関連する語

• relaxation

アナグラム

• laxer, raxle