What does laxen mean?
Laxen means (ambitransitive) To make or become lax.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
(ambitransitive) To make or become lax.
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.
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Laxen means (ambitransitive) To make or become lax.
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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. […]"
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