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Meaning of laxen | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B1

Definitions

To make or become lax

Examples

“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. […]"”

“His face, as near as I could see in the bruises and steady streams of blood, grimaced and laxened.”

CEFR level

B1

Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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See also

laxened laxening lay lay a finger on lay a foundation lay a glove on

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