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单词 relaxing
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relaxingn.

Brit. /rᵻˈlaksɪŋ/, U.S. /rəˈlæksɪŋ/, /riˈlæksɪŋ/
Forms: see relax v. and -ing suffix1.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: relax v., -ing suffix1.
Etymology: < relax v. + -ing suffix1, originally partly after classical Latin relaxāndus, gerund of relaxāre relax v., and partly after classical Latin relaxātiō relaxation n. Compare relaxation n.
The action of relax v.; an instance of this.
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the world > life > the body > structural parts > muscle > [noun] > muscular tension > looseness of muscles
laxation1398
relaxing?a1425
laxity1528
laxness1634
relaxity1908
the world > action or operation > manner of action > lack of violence, severity, or intensity > [noun] > becoming less violent, vigorous, or severe
lissc1000
remissionc1425
abatement1433
swagingc1440
remittinga1475
slacking1542
remissness1551
subsiding1607
slackening1611
relaxation1614
relentment1628
rebatement1701
relaxing1734
?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 64 Be it bounde..with a bonde of cloþe in streynyng forsoþ 4 tymez or 5..in þe selfe wounde emoragiante, after in relaxing [?c1425 Paris lousinge; Latin relaxando] litel bi litel to þe circumference.
1522 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1903) V. 207 For..relaxing of thare men fra the horne.
1667 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 2 545 The Belly falls by the Relaxing of the same [sc. the diaphragm].
1734 D. Waterland Scripture Vind. Concl., in Wks. (1823) VI. 169 The destroying or relaxing of the other [motives] is so far destroying or relaxing virtue and morality.
1866 T. T. Stoddart Angler's Rambles 220 The continual wear and tear, And relaxing of its spring.
1884 Athenæum 16 Aug. 204/2 The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries saw a considerable relaxing of the severities of the Cistercian rule.
1963 Atlanta Daily World 14 Apr. 3/6 Mrs. Butts will study the latest methods in hair styling, cutting, relaxing, tinting, [etc.].
1994 Wall St. Jrnl. 25 Feb. a14/5 There is little domestic pressure in the U.S. for a relaxing of the rules for German (or other overseas) companies.
2001 Hair Now Oct. 65/1 Relaxing techniques and hair wefts have revolutionised styling for black women.

Compounds

Entomology. attributive. Designating a container for relaxing dried insect specimens (esp. in relaxing box), and the fluid used in such a container. Cf. relax v. 1d.
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1843 Zoologist 1 177 They invariably, on warm days, became too much stiffened..; nor would the relaxing box restore their pliancy sufficiently.
1901 M. C. Dickerson Moths & Butterflies iii. 320 A little alum dissolved in the water sprinkled on the sawdust will prevent the formation of mould in the relaxing box.
1952 E. F. Daglish Name this Insect p. xiii After some hours in a relaxing chamber the legs and wings will be as easy to arrange as are those of fresh-killed specimens.
1976 P. W. Cribb Lepidopterist's Handbk. vii. 84 A relaxing box is a clean plastic box with a layer of clean absorbent material at the bottom.
2001 Florida Entomologist 84 134/2 Specimens were relaxed in boiling water instead of relaxing fluid.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

relaxingadj.

Brit. /rᵻˈlaksɪŋ/, U.S. /rəˈlæksɪŋ/, /riˈlæksɪŋ/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: relax v., -ing suffix2.
Etymology: < relax v. + -ing suffix2. Compare relaxative adj.
1. Causing or producing relaxation; (also) enervating.muscle-, nerve-relaxing: see the first element.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > cleansing or expelling medicines > [adjective] > purgative
outrunningeOE
laxativea1398
purgativea1398
openinga1400
abstersive?a1425
purging?c1425
solublec1503
minorative1543
purgy1562
relaxing1562
solutive1564
benedict1576
aperitive1582
scouring1597
apertive1605
dejective1605
relaxative1611
subductory1620
calastic1621
aperient1626
cathartic1639
dejectory1640
relaxant1651
spurginga1652
cathartical1656
anastomotic1657
ecphractic1657
ecphractical1657
rhyptical1657
rhyptic1659
loosening1665
eccathartic1681
fluxing1702
chalastic1704
loosinga1722
hypactic1753
evacuatory1789
evacuant1800
relaxatory1925
society > leisure > [adjective] > relaxing
relaxative1731
relaxing1825
de-stressing1967
1562 W. Bullein Bulwarke of Defence f. xvij It is of the like vertue and effecte, sodden in the broth of a Henne, or Ptisane, and is of order temperate, relaxyng.
1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Rilasciante medicina, a relaxing medicine.
1731 J. Arbuthnot Ess. Nature Aliments v. 65 By its astringent Quality it [sc. Tea] moderates the relaxing Quality of warm Water.
1779 Gentleman's Mag. 49 79 Ointment of Marsh Mallows, I imagine from its name is understood to be of an emollient relaxing disposition.
1825 M. M. Sherwood Lady of Manor (ed. 2) II. xiii. 235 A climate so peculiarly relaxing as that of Bengal.
1841 G. P. R. James Brigand i All the relaxing joys of an hour's idleness.
1883 A. Thomas Mod. Housewife 95 You will neither go to the bleak Norfolk coast nor to the relaxing air of Bournemouth.
1925 L. E. H. Whitby Nurses' Handbk. Hygiene i. 15 Closed anthracite stoves are unhealthy in that they make the air dry and relaxing.
1986 I. Murdoch Acastos 14 Sometimes I think a tyranny would be as relaxing, you wouldn't have to think about politics at all.
2. Undergoing relaxation; becoming less taut.
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1801 R. Southey Thalaba I. iii. 177 From his [sc. a bird's] relaxing grasp a Locust fell.
1890 Cent. Dict. Myogram, the tracing of a contracting and relaxing muscle drawn by a myograph.
1914 L. Mason Eng. Poems Henry King 204 Part of the mechanism of the old-fashioned fusee watch, by means of which the declining power of the relaxing spring was compensated.
2005 Amer. Jrnl. Cardiol. 96 1687/1 The dimensionless relative change in length of the contracting (or relaxing) muscle.

Derivatives

reˈlaxingness n. rare
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society > leisure > [noun] > relaxation > relaxing quality
relaxingness1883
1883 R. Broughton Belinda II. ii. v. 55 I have been advised..to try the effect of a more bracing air, as a corrective to the extreme relaxingness of Oxbridge.
2000 J. L. Nasar in W. B. Walsh et al. Person–Environment Psychol. v. 119 This chapter stresses the aspects of evaluative response having the most importance for theory, research and human experience—pleasantness, excitement (interest), restoration (relaxingness), and fear.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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