RELAX Copy link • RELAXTransitively, laxare: relaxare: remittere (PROP. and figuratively): mollire, emollire (to soften): frangere: languorem afferre alicui (to render [mentally] dull): to relax the body and mind, i. e., to weaken, frangere vires animi, corporis: to relax the mind, debilitare animum: to relax the mind and body, mentis et corporis nervos frangere: to be relaxed by anything, aliquid languorem affert mihi: to relax the mind, i. e., to refresh, animum remittere or relaxare: to relax military discipline, disciplinam militarem resolvere. Intransitively, laxari, relaxari, remitti: languescere, elanguescere, relanguescere (to become dull, feeble, etc.): flaccessere (to become loose, of sails; then figuratively, of speech). Vid: also, ABATE.