When you relax, you make yourself calmer and less worried or tense.
Idiom relax your grip/hold (definition of relax from the cambridge advanced learner's dictionary & thesaurus © cambridge university press)
To become or to cause (something) to become less tense, tight, or stiff sometimes used figuratively;
To stop feeling nervous or worried
The meaning of relax is to make less tense or rigid :
How to use relax in a sentence.
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