緩める – Vocabulary details

緩ゆるめる

Verb (1-dan, transitive)

1. to loosen; to slacken

2. to relax (attention, efforts, etc.); to let down (one's guard); to relieve (tension)

3. to relax (a rule); to ease (e.g. restrictions); to loosen (control)

4. to reduce (speed); to slow down; to ease up

5. to make more gradual (of a slope)

become loose

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to relax one's efforts; to let up; to let one's guard down

to ease up the speed

to loosen the reins; to let up on (someone)

私わたしは靴くつのひもを緩ゆるめた。

I loosened my shoelaces.

その規き則そくは最さい近きん緩ゆるめられた。

The rules were recently relaxed.

輸ゆ入にゅう規き制せいは最さい近きんだいぶ緩ゆるめられた。

Import restrictions have been greatly loosened of late.

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