Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

laxen

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: lax-en
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To make or become lax

Example Sentences

"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."

Etymology

From lax + -en.

Inflected Forms

laxens (present, singular) laxening (participle, present) laxened (participle, past) laxened (past)

Derived Forms

laxening

Questions

What does laxen mean?: To make or become lax
Where does laxen come from?: From lax + -en.

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