laxen

English

Etymology

From lax +‎ -en.

Verb

laxen (third-person singular simple present laxens, present participle laxening, simple past and past participle laxened)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To make or become lax
   • 1967, The Lutheran Witness, volumes 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.

Derived terms

• laxening

Anagrams

• nexal

Catalan

Verb

laxen

1. third-person plural present indicative of laxar

German

Pronunciation

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Adjective

laxen

1. inflection of lax:
   1. strong genitive masculine/neuter singular
   2. weak/mixed genitive/dative all-gender singular
   3. strong/weak/mixed accusative masculine singular
   4. strong dative plural
   5. weak/mixed all-case plural

Spanish

Verb

laxen

1. inflection of laxar:
   1. third-person plural present subjunctive
   2. third-person plural imperative

Swedish

Noun

laxen

1. definite singular of lax

Anagrams

• axeln