To slacken; make more lax or less tense or rigid; loosen; make less close or firm: as, to relax a rope or cord; to relax the muscles or sinews.To make less severe or rigorous; remit or abate in strictness: as, to relax a law or rule.To remit or abate in respect to attention, assiduity, effort, or labor: as, to relax study; to relax exertions or efforts.To relieve from attention or effort; afford a relaxation to; unbend: as, conversation relaxes the mind of the student.To abate; take away.To relieve from constipation; loosen; open: as, medicines relax the bowels.To set loose or free; give up or over.Synonyms To loose, unbrace, weaken, enervate, debilitate.To mitigate, ease.To divert, recreate.To become loose, feeble, or languid.To abate in severity; become more mild or less rigorous.To remit in close attention; unbend.n. Relaxation.Relaxed; loose.