relax
verb (used with object)
to make less tense, rigid, or firm; make lax.
unrelaxing
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a word derived from
relax.
Example Sentences
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“A Bigger Splash” is fiercely unrelaxing, and impossible to ignore.
From The New Yorker ● May 9, 2016
But isn’t that one of the grand traditions of a Hamptons summer, when you can only fully relax when you are photographed doing so at an unrelaxing promotional event?
From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2011
To the search for this "yardstick of space beyond the stars," to an unrelaxing effort to calibrate it ever more accurately, Dr. Michelson has devoted 52 years.
From Time Magazine Archive
The unrelaxing, hobbyless Premier began his day at 8 every morning and worked late into the night.
From Time Magazine Archive
He devoted himself to winning her with an unrelaxing energy, for she had forty thousand pounds of her own.
From The Admirable Tinker Child of the World by Jepson, Edgar
