Relax and Work

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Relax

Relax verb - To refrain from labor or exertion.
Usage example: I just want to kick back and relax after mowing that huge lawn
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Work is an antonym for relax in lessen topic.
Nearby Words: relaxed, relaxation, relaxing

Work

Work verb - To devote serious and sustained effort.
Usage example: the organization has worked for years to raise people's awareness of human rights issues
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Relax is an antonym for work in topics: cultivate, manipulate, be employed.
Nearby Words: works, working, worked, workable, worker
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Common collocations

people relax people work people
job relax job work job
time relax time work time
way relax way work way
Other words: bit, little, ass.

Both words in one sentence

  • The Generic Guy Everyone else has a place that says something about the person, somewhere to work or relax and be themselves, but him.
    Source: The Generic Guy
  • Monstrous Humanoid In Spirited Away, the staff and guests of Yubaba's bathhouse are Youkai of various degrees of anthropomorphism, though they're all there to work or relax just as would be expected in any human tourist trap.
    Source: Monstrous Humanoid
  • Learn to relax and leave work at work; you may feel like this is your calling, but you need a life too.
    Source: Useful Notes / Tarot Cards
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