laxen

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verb

To make or become lax

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Meanings

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

present singular third person laxens · participle present laxening · participle past laxened · past laxened

  1. ambitransitiveTo make or become lax

    His face, as near as I could see in the bruises and steady streams of blood, grimaced and laxened.

    2007, Erika Mailman, Woman of Ill Fame, page 245
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    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. […]"

    1967, The Lutheran Witness, volumes 86-87, page 106

Origin

From lax + -en.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

nexal
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APA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “laxen,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/laxen.

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