different between retax vs relax

English

Etymology

re- +? tax

Verb

retax (third-person singular simple present retaxes, present participle retaxing, simple past and past participle retaxed)

1. (transitive) To tax again.

Anagrams

• Artex, extra, extra-, taxer

English

Etymology

From Middle English relaxen, from Old French relaxer, from Latin relax?re (“relax, loosen, open”), from re- (“back”) + lax?re (“loosen”), from laxus (“loose, free”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???læks/
• Rhymes: -æks

Verb

relax (third-person singular simple present relaxes, present participle relaxing, simple past and past participle relaxed)

1. (transitive) To calm down.
2. (transitive) To make something loose.
3. (intransitive) To become loose.
   • 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     I relax in the living room.

4. (transitive) To make something less severe or tense.

5. (intransitive) To become less severe or tense.
6. (transitive) To make something (such as codes and regulations) more lenient.
   • 1713, Jonathan Swift, A Preface to Bishop Burnet's Introduction

     The statute of mortmain […] was at several times relaxed by the legislature.
7. (intransitive, of codes and regulations) To become more lenient.
8. (transitive) To relieve (something) from stress.

9. (transitive, dated) To relieve from constipation; to loosen; to open.

Antonyms

• stress, excite

Derived terms

• relaxable
• overrelax, underrelax

Related terms

• relaxation

Translations

Anagrams

• laxer, raxle

Italian

Noun

relax m (invariable)

1. relaxation (mental or physical)

Spanish

Etymology

Pseudo-anglicism, shortening of English relaxation or erroneous borrowing of English relax.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?rela?s/, [?re.la??s]

Noun

relax m (uncountable)

1. relaxation

Derived terms

• estar de relax