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   lax

   /laks/

   adjective

   • 1. not sufficiently strict, severe, or careful: "lax security arrangements at the airport"
   • 2. (of the limbs or muscles) relaxed: "muscles have more potential energy when they are stretched than when they are lax"
   • ▪ (of the bowels) loose.
   • ▪ (of a speech sound, especially a vowel) pronounced with the vocal muscles relaxed. "the merger of tense and lax vowels before “l”"

   Word Origin late Middle English (in the sense ‘loose’, said of the bowels): from Latin laxus.

   Derivatives

   • 1. laxly adverb
   • 2. laxness noun

   Scrabble Points: 10

   • L

     1

   • A

     1

   • X

     8

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2. dictionary.cambridge.org › dictionary › englishLAX | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

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   LAX definition: 1. without much care, attention, or control: 2. not severe or strong enough: 3. loose rather than….

3. dictionary.cambridge.org › es-LA › dictionaryLAX | significado, definición en el Cambridge English Dictionary

   dictionary.cambridge.org › es-LA › dictionary

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   lax significado, definición, qué es lax: 1. without much care, attention, or control: 2. not severe or strong enough: 3.