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Etymology edit

From lax +‎ -en.

Verb edit

laxen (third-person singular simple present laxens, present participle laxening, simple past and past participle laxened)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To make or become lax
    • 1967, The Lutheran Witness, volumes 86-87, page 106:
      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. [] "
    • 2007, Erika Mailman, Woman of Ill Fame, page 245:
      His face, as near as I could see in the bruises and steady streams of blood, grimaced and laxened.

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laxen

  1. third-person plural present indicative of laxar

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laxen

  1. inflection of lax:
    1. strong genitive masculine/neuter singular
    2. weak/mixed genitive/dative all-gender singular
    3. strong/weak/mixed accusative masculine singular
    4. strong dative plural
    5. weak/mixed all-case plural

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laxen

  1. inflection of laxar:
    1. third-person plural present subjunctive
    2. third-person plural imperative

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Noun edit

laxen

  1. definite singular of lax

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