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overrelax

overrelax verb: to relax excessively.

Verb

overrelax (third-person singular simple present overrelaxes, present participle overrelaxing, simple past and past participle overrelaxed)

  1. (transitive) To relax excessively.
    • They may have diabetes, or be taking a medication that overrelaxes the muscular sphincter at the bottom of the esophagus.2003, Mark Hyman, Mark Liponis, Ultraprevention: The 6-Week Plan That Will Make You Healthy for Life, page 70
  2. (transitive) To solve using overrelaxation.

Forms of overrelax

third-person singular presentoverrelaxes
present participleoverrelaxing
past participleoverrelaxed
pastoverrelaxed

Origin of overrelax

From over- + relax.

Questions about overrelax

What does overrelax mean?
Overrelax means to relax excessively.
What part of speech is overrelax?
Overrelax is a verb.
What is the past tense of overrelax?
The past tense of overrelax is overrelaxed.

Words near overrelax in the dictionary

  1. overrejects
  2. overrelativize
  3. overrelativized
  4. overrelativizes
  5. overrelativizing
  6. overrelax
  7. overrelaxation
  8. overrelaxations
  9. overrelaxed
  10. overrelaxes
  11. overrelaxing

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