Meaning

• To calm down.

• To make something loose.

  "to relax a rope or cord"

• To become loose.

• To make something less severe or tense.

  "to relax discipline"

• To become less severe or tense.

• To make something (such as codes and regulations) more lenient.

• (of codes and regulations) To become more lenient.

• To relieve (something) from stress.

  "Amusement relaxes the mind."

• To relieve from constipation; to loosen; to open.

  "An aperient relaxes the bowels."