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.

ねじを緩ゆるめて、ランプ・カバーを取とり外はずします。

Loosen the screws and remove the lamp cover.

伊藤氏は事じ務む所しょで熱あつく感かんじたのでネクタイを緩ゆるめた。

Mr Ito loosened his tie because he felt hot in his office.

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