Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) To make lax or loose; to make less close, firm, rigid, tense, or the like; to slacken; to loosen; to open; as, to relax a rope or cord; to relax the muscles or sinews. 2. (n.) To make less severe or rigorous; to abate the stringency of; to remit in respect to strenuousness, earnestness, or effort; as, to relax discipline; to relax one's attention or endeavors. 3. (n.) Hence, to relieve from attention or effort; to ease; to recreate; to divert; as, amusement relaxes the mind. 4. (n.) To relieve from constipation; to loosen; to open; as, an aperient relaxes the bowels. 5. (v. i.) To become lax, weak, or loose; as, to let one's grasp relax. 6. (v. i.) To abate in severity; to become less rigorous. 7. (v. i.) To remit attention or effort; to become less diligent; to unbend; as, to relax in study. 8. (n.) Relaxation. 9. (a.) Relaxed; lax; hence, remiss; careless.

Multi-Version Concordance Relax (5 Occurrences) Deuteronomy 15:2 and this is the manner of the release: Every creditor shall relax his hand from the loan which he hath lent unto his neighbour; he shall not demand it of his neighbour, or of his brother; for a release to Jehovah hath been proclaimed. (DBY) Joshua 10:6 The men of Gibeon sent to Joshua to the camp to Gilgal, saying, "Don't abandon your servants! Come up to us quickly, and save us, and help us; for all the kings of the Amorites that dwell in the hill country have gathered together against us." (See RSV) 2 Samuel 24:16 When the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, Yahweh relented of the disaster, and said to the angel who destroyed the people, "It is enough. Now stay your hand." The angel of Yahweh was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite. (See NAS) 1 Chronicles 21:15 God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was about to destroy, Yahweh saw, and he relented of the disaster, and said to the destroying angel, It is enough; now stay your hand. The angel of Yahweh was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. (See NAS) Job 30:27 My heart is troubled, and doesn't rest. Days of affliction have come on me. (See NAS)