Chillax vs. Relax

To relax; to be laid back.

Example: ‘Let's watch a movie with Maria and chillax tonight.’;

To calm down.

Example: ‘Chillax dude, or they are going to know you are tripping.’;

To behave.

Example: ‘Oi, chillax sunshine, or there's gonna be trouble!’;

(transitive) To calm down.

(transitive) To make something loose.

Example: ‘to relax a rope or cord’; ‘to relax the muscles or sinews’;

(intransitive) To become loose.

(transitive) To make something less severe or tense.

Example: ‘to relax discipline’; ‘to relax one's attention or endeavours’;

(intransitive) To become less severe or tense.

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

To become more lenient.

(transitive) To relieve (something) from stress.

Example: ‘Amusement relaxes the mind.’;

To relieve from constipation; to loosen; to open.

Example: ‘An aperient relaxes the bowels.’;

To make lax or loose; to make less close, firm, rigid, tense, or the like; to slacken; to loosen; to open; as, to relax a rope or cord; to relax the muscles or sinews.

Example: ‘Horror . . . all his joints relaxed.’; ‘Nor served it to relax their serried files.’;

To make less severe or rigorous; to abate the stringency of; to remit in respect to strenuousness, earnestness, or effort; as, to relax discipline; to relax one's attention or endeavors.

Example: ‘The statute of mortmain was at several times relaxed by the legislature.’;

Hence, to relieve from attention or effort; to ease; to recreate; to divert; as, amusement relaxes the mind.

To relieve from constipation; to loosen; to open; as, an aperient relaxes the bowels.

To become lax, weak, or loose; as, to let one's grasp relax.

Example: ‘His knees relax with toil.’;

To abate in severity; to become less rigorous.

Example: ‘In others she relaxed again,And governed with a looser rein.’;

To remit attention or effort; to become less diligent; to unbend; as, to relax in study.

Relaxation.

Relaxed; lax; hence, remiss; careless.

become less tense, rest, or take one's ease;

Example: ‘He relaxed in the hot tub’; ‘Let's all relax after a hard day's work’;

make less tight;

Example: ‘relax the tension on the rope’;

become loose or looser or less tight;

Example: ‘The noose loosened’; ‘the rope relaxed’;

cause to feel relaxed;

Example: ‘A hot bath always relaxes me’;

become less tense, less formal, or less restrained, and assume a friendlier manner;

Example: ‘our new colleague relaxed when he saw that we were a friendly group’;

make less severe or strict;

Example: ‘The government relaxed the curfew after most of the rebels were caught’;

become less severe or strict;

Example: ‘The rules relaxed after the new director arrived’;

make less active or fast;

Example: ‘He slackened his pace as he got tired’; ‘Don't relax your efforts now’;