relaxing
ri lak sing
- v become less tense, rest, or take one's ease
- v make less taut
- v become loose or looser or less tight
- v cause to feel relaxed
- v become less tense, less formal, or less restrained, and assume a friendlier manner
- v make less severe or strict
- v become less severe or strict
- v make less active or fast
- a affording physical or mental rest
- He had found relatively large amounts of the relaxing substance (whose presence was proved by its effect on guinea pigs) in the corpus luteum (a yellow mass in the ovary) and in .
- The Arizonan is relaxing at his home near Sedona Thursday for three days off the trail.
- Often I have unexpected flashes of insight or understanding while relaxing.