laxen
English
Etymology
Verb
laxen (third-person singular simple present laxens, present participle laxening, simple past and past participle laxened)
- (ambitransitive) 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.
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Catalan
Verb
laxen
- third-person plural present indicative of laxar
German
Pronunciation
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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
Verb
laxen
- inflection of laxar:
- third-person plural present subjunctive
- third-person plural imperative
Swedish
Noun
laxen
- definite singular of lax