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laxened

laxened is the simple past and past participle of laxen.

Meaning of laxen

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

Questions about laxened

What is laxened the simple past and past participle of?
Laxened is the simple past and past participle of laxen.

Words near laxened in the dictionary

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

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