untensing
Letting muscles soften
Untensing is the act of releasing tension or becoming less tense.
The word applies to muscles relaxing after exertion, to emotional states settling after stress, or to situations that were strained: I felt my shoulders untensing as the meeting ended.
The present participle of untense, it often describes a gradual process rather than an instant change.
Become less tense
- loosenReduce tension or grip
- releaseTo let go
- unwindRelease accumulated tension
- de-stressReduce mental tension
soften · ease · calm · soothe · decompress · let go · unbrace · slacken
Action-expressing word
- morphologyStudy of structural forms
- conjugationVerb form variation system
- inflectionWord form alteration
- aspectFeature or dimension
temporal · marker · suffix · auxiliary · past · present · future · indicative
relax
Become less tense
de-stress · soften · ease · calm · soothe · decompress · let go · unbrace · slacken · melt
verb
Action-expressing word
- morphologyStudy of structural forms
- conjugationVerb form variation system
- inflectionWord form alteration
aspect · temporal · marker · suffix · auxiliary · past · present · future · indicative · subjunctive
untensingtensing
Making or becoming taut
tightening · clenching · contracting · stiffening · flexing
untensingstressing
Emphasizing or feeling anxious
tightening up · winding up · agitating · worrying · fretting
intense, tense, tension, intensity, tensed, tenses, tensing, tensely, tenseness