Loosen: alternatives and connections

To make lax or loose; to make less close, firm, rigid, tense, or the like; to slacken; to loosen; to open; as, to relax a rope or cord; to relax the…

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To make lax or loose; to make less close, firm, rigid, tense, or the like; to slacken; to loosen; to open; as, to relax a rope or cord; to relax the…

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To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify.

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To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change t…

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To free from entanglement; to release from a condition of being intricately and confusedly involved or interlaced; to reduce to orderly arrangement;…

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To change somewhat the form or qualities of; to alter somewhat; as, to modify a contrivance adapted to some mechanical purpose; to modify the terms o…

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To make weak; to lessen the strength of; to deprive of strength; to debilitate; to enfeeble; to enervate; as, to weaken the body or the mind; to weak…

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Nap or down; flue; soft, downy feathers.

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To make lax or loose; to make less close, firm, rigid, tense, or the like; to slacken; to loosen; to open; as, to relax a rope or cord; to relax the…

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To send back; to give up; to surrender; to resign.

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To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle.

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To scratch or cut the skin of; esp. (Med.), to make small incisions in, by means of a lancet or scarificator, so as to draw blood from the smaller ve…

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Small coal; also, coal dust; culm.

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To become slack; to be made less tense, firm, or rigid; to decrease in tension; as, a wet cord slackens in dry weather.

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To free from flexure; to make, or allow to become, straight; to loosen; as, to unbend a bow.

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To draw the screws from; to loose from screws; to loosen or withdraw (anything, as a screw) by turning it.

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The act or process of relaxing, or the state of being relaxed; as, relaxation of the muscles; relaxation of a law.

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The act or process of relaxing, or the state of being relaxed; as, relaxation of the muscles; relaxation of a law.

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Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book.

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To make lax or loose; to make less close, firm, rigid, tense, or the like; to slacken; to loosen; to open; as, to relax a rope or cord; to relax the…

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Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book.

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To make lax or loose; to make less close, firm, rigid, tense, or the like; to slacken; to loosen; to open; as, to relax a rope or cord; to relax the…

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To comb or card, as wool or flax.

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To reverse, as what has been done; to annul; to bring to naught.

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To loosen, as something interlaced or knotted; to disengage the parts of; as, to untie a knot.

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