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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
abating, allaying, alleviating, assuaging, blunting, chastening, comfortable, comfy, commodious, contented, convenient, cozy, cushioned, cushioning, cushiony, cushy, dampening, damping, deadening, demulcent, diminishing, dulling, easeful, easing, easy, emollient, friendly, homelike, homely, homey, lessening, lived-in, loosening, luxurious, mitigating, mollifying, peaceful, reducing, reposeful, restful, roomy, snug, soft, softening, subduing, tempering, warm
Dictionary Results for relaxing:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
relaxing
    adj 1: affording physical or mental rest; "she spent a restful
           night at home" [syn: restful, reposeful, relaxing]
           [ant: restless, uneasy]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Relax \Re*lax"\ (r?-l?ks"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Relaxed
   (-l?kst"); p. pr. & vb. n. Relaxing.] [L. relaxare; pref.
   re- re- + laxare to loose, to slacken, from laxus loose. See
   Lax, and cf. Relay, n., Release.]
   1. 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.
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            Horror . . . all his joints relaxed.  --Milton.
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            Nor served it to relax their serried files.
                                                  --Milton.
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   2. 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.
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            The statute of mortmain was at several times relaxed
            by the legislature.                   --Swift.
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   3. Hence, to relieve from attention or effort; to ease; to
      recreate; to divert; as, amusement relaxes the mind.
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   4. To relieve from constipation; to loosen; to open; as, an
      aperient relaxes the bowels.
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   Syn: To slacken; loosen; loose; remit; abate; mitigate; ease;
        unbend; divert.
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