Relax

[rɪ'læks]

解釋/意思:

(verb.) cause to feel relaxed; 'A hot bath always relaxes me'.

(verb.) become less tense, rest, or take one's ease; 'He relaxed in the hot tub'; 'Let's all relax after a hard day's work'.

(verb.) make less taut; 'relax the tension on the rope'.

(verb.) become less severe or strict; 'The rules relaxed after the new director arrived'.

(verb.) make less severe or strict; 'The government relaxed the curfew after most of the rebels were caught'.

(verb.) become less tense, less formal, or less restrained, and assume a friendlier manner; 'our new colleague relaxed when he saw that we were a friendly group'.

科林整理--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) To make lax or loose; to make less close, firm, rigid, tense, or the like; to slacken; to loosen; to open; as, to relax a rope or cord; to relax the muscles or sinews.

(n.) To make less severe or rigorous; to abate the stringency of; to remit in respect to strenuousness, earnestness, or effort; as, to relax discipline; to relax one's attention or endeavors.

(n.) Hence, to relieve from attention or effort; to ease; to recreate; to divert; as, amusement relaxes the mind.

(n.) To relieve from constipation; to loosen; to open; as, an aperient relaxes the bowels.

(v. i.) To become lax, weak, or loose; as, to let one's grasp relax.

(v. i.) To abate in severity; to become less rigorous.

(v. i.) To remit attention or effort; to become less diligent; to unbend; as, to relax in study.

(n.) Relaxation.

(a.) Relaxed; lax; hence, remiss; careless.

校對:卡特里娜

同義詞及近義詞：

v. a. [1]. Loosen, slacken, loose.[2]. Weaken, enfeeble, debilitate, enervate, unbrace, prostrate.[3]. Lessen, diminish, reduce, abate, remit, mitigate.[4]. Unbend, ease, divert, recreate, entertain, amuse.

v. n. [1]. Become lax.[2]. Recreate, unbend, take recreation.

乔恩錄入

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Slacken, loosen, remit, abate, mitigate, release, unbend, relent, divert,recreate, rest, enervate, Unstring

ANT:Tighten, increase, intensify, stretch, bend, brace, invigorate, redouble, grow,heighten, strengthen

阿尔塔編輯

解釋/意思:

v.t. to loosen one thing away from another: to slacken: to make less close tense or rigid: to make less severe: to relieve from attention or effort: to divert: to open or loosen as the bowels: to make languid.—v.i. to become less close: to become less severe: to attend less.—adj. Relax′able.—ns. Relax′ant a relaxing medicine; Relaxā′tion act of relaxing: state of being relaxed: remission of application: unbending: looseness.—adj. Relax′ative.

吉塞尔編輯