Relaxation is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for RELAXATION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act of relaxing or state of being relaxed
• the state of being free from tension and anxiety
• recreation or rest, especially after a period of work
• the loss of tension in a part of the body, especially in a muscle when it ceases to contract.
• the action of making a rule or restriction less strict
• the restoration of equilibrium following disturbance.
• The act or process of relaxing, or the state of being relaxed; as, relaxation of the muscles; relaxation of a law.
• Remission from attention and effort; indulgence in recreation, diversion, or amusement.
• (physiology) the gradual lengthening of inactive muscle or muscle fibers
• (physics) the exponential return of a system to equilibrium after a disturbance
• a feeling of refreshing tranquility and an absence of tension or worry
• an occurrence of control or strength weakening
• freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility)
• a method of solving simultaneous equations by guessing a solution and then reducing the errors that result by successive approximations until all the errors are less than some specified amount
• the act of making less strict

Words related to RELAXATION

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Words that contain RELAXATION

relaxations18

How to use RELAXATION in a sentence

• Still the line was taught, pressing always, towing him towards the boat at every relaxation.
• And the great shells that blew enormous holes in front and in back of their position never allowed a relaxation from strain.
• It has furnished a pleasing relaxation from the serious business of the court.
• Their object is relaxation, and they are disappointed if mental exertion be required, when they expected only amusement.
• There is, I am aware, the theory that the novel is wholly and solely a means of relaxation.
• As he sank into sleep, just at the first exquisite relaxation, the Doppelbrau car came home.
• And who can censure this delay? The infirmities of human nature require relaxation and repose.
• Again did he struggle to get at his knife, and this time, owing to a slight relaxation of the coils around his body, he was successful.
• Under him we trace a growing relaxation of the checks by which the great officers of the state were intended to have been held under restraint.
• When she saw the master of the house she retired in abrupt, angular fashion, but the suggestion of her errand recalled him from his brief relaxation.
• Every relaxation of the old thoroughgoing position was welcomed and supported by converts only half converted.
• These important measures were followed by several bills having for their objects the relaxation of the navigation laws, and the promotion of the system of free trade.
• Canning and Huskisson introduced a corn-bill, which was the first relaxation proposed by members of a government to the corn-law.
• While occupation and skill incline one towards severity and economy, leisure and unlimited means involve relaxation and demand the adventitious interest of decoration.
• The correction lies in directing an impulse of relaxation to it.
• He undertakes it partly for information and partly for relaxation of his mental faculties, which he has injured by overwork, and which imperatively demand repose.
• In the other annex there are also one or two younger children, but it seems to have been set apart for conversation and relaxation more than any other part of the establishment.
• In such a struggle, coming upon an unprepared people of the habits and in the circumstances of the colonists, this relaxation was inevitable.
• Sport, in its excess, is effeminacy, as being relaxation from toil.
• The rest of the day was spent in relaxation as this was the only day of the week in which they were not forced to work.
• If art is excluded altogether or given only a trivial role, perhaps as a necessary relaxation, we feel at once that a philosophy so judging human arts is ascetic or post-rational.
• Down east there was a sort of middle-aged relaxation to this season of the year.
• Nor is it only in the touch that smooth bodies cause positive pleasure by relaxation.
• It was an entirely changed preoccupation, a relaxation.

Similar words containing LAXA without suffix tion and without prefix re

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