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laxen

laxen verb: to make or become lax.

Verb

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

  1. (ambitransitive) To make or become lax
    • 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
    • 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

Forms of laxen

third-person singular presentlaxens
present participlelaxening
past participlelaxened
pastlaxened

Origin of laxen

From lax + -en.

Words formed from laxen

Questions about laxen

What does laxen mean?
Laxen means to make or become lax.
What part of speech is laxen?
Laxen is a verb.
What is the past tense of laxen?
The past tense of laxen is laxened.

Words near laxen in the dictionary

  1. laxativeness
  2. laxatives
  3. laxator
  4. laxators
  5. laxed
  6. laxen
  7. laxened
  8. laxening
  9. laxer
  10. laxers
  11. laxes

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