RELAXATIVE Antonyms

• the capacity to attract and hold something

• strip sewn over or along an edge for reinforcement or decoration

• the act of applying a bandage

• one of a pair of mechanical devices that are attached to a ski and that will grip a ski boot; the bindings should release in case of a fall

• the protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book

• executed with proper legal authority

• (of circumstances) tending to constrict freedom

• capable of contracting or being contracted

• preventing movement

• serving to restrict

• (of tariff) protective of national interests by restricting imports

• any stimulating information or event; acts to arouse action

• a drug that temporarily quickens some vital process

• that stimulates

• impede with a clog or as if with a clog

• cause to be constipated

• in or of a state of physical or nervous tension

• pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e.g., the vowel sound in `beat')

• taut or rigid; stretched tight

• a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time

• become stretched or tense or taut

• increase the tension on

• become tense, nervous, or uneasy

• cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious