Word Finder - loosened

definition

To make loose.

example

After the Thanksgiving meal, Bill loosened his belt.

synonyms

• ease
• relax
• untighten

definition

To become loose.

example

I noticed that my seatbelt had gradually loosened during the journey.

definition

To disengage (a device that restrains).

synonyms

• undo
• unfasten

definition

To become unfastened or undone.

definition

To free from restraint; to set at liberty.

synonyms

• liberate
• release
• set free

definition

To relieve (the bowels) from constipation; to promote defecation.

definition

To create a breach or rift between (two parties).

definition

To sail away (from the shore).

synonyms

• put out

definition

Having been made less tight or more relaxed.

At his touch, the band loosened enough to slide over her hand.

His grip loosened, but she made no attempt to move.

Long brown fingers loosened and removed the tie and then unbuttoned his shirt.

His hands loosened so she could turn, but never left her waist.

He loosened the knives at his hip and thighs before drawing on the protective gloves and tugging the protective hood and face combo over his head.

His grip on her arm loosened and she stiffened as his hand slid up to her throat.

For the first time in days, the tension in her body loosened.

His arm loosened, and she hurried to Ully, who grabbed her hand and pulled her from the room.

She had loosened her hair and her long tresses fell in a wave, over her shoulder and across her small breasts.

Sprawled on the ground, Jenn stared at the pillar of roaring magic that replaced the obelisk, as if a cork had been loosened from the core of the immortal world.

By the aid of one front leg it places consecutive heaps of loosened particles upon its head, then with a smart jerk throws each little pile clear of the scene of operations.

For small work the box can be replaced by a canvas bag secured by a special tripping noose which can be loosened when the bag has reached the ground.

Flaking and scaling set in; hard crusts of mildew formed, dissolved and re-formed with changes of weather over both the loosened parts and those that remained firm.

Whether it was the wine he had drunk, or an impulse of frankness, or the thought that this man did not, and never would, know any of those who played a part in his story, or whether it was all these things together, something loosened Pierre's tongue.

As it tolled its final gong, Edith Shipton appeared, in her late night attire— the Annie Quincy white dress—her hair loosened about her shoulders.

He had no idea if he possessed the strength to stop his fall once the loosened slack had expired.

He loosened his collar and tie out of absolute necessity.

Whenever he loosened his grip on his power, he felt it respond.

On the other hand, the precipitation on the Tibetan plateau is so copious, and so uniformly distributed, that it is able to retain the loosened material in situ, and causes it to heap itself up in rounded masses on the flanks of the mountains that are its primitive source of origin, these projecting in great part like skeletons from the midst of their own ruins."

The Treatise is a reductio ad absurdum of the principles of Lockianism, inasmuch as these principles, when consistently applied, leave the structure of experience entirely " loosened " (to use Hume's own expression), or cemented together only by the irrational force of custom.

After the assassination of Buckingham in 1628 the barrier between the married pair was broken down, and the bond of affection which from that moment united them was never loosened.

This policy found much favour with the people generally, but displeased many of the Republican politicians, because it loosened the hold of the Republican party upon the Southern States.

Thence the silk is taken to a washing machine, and the loosened gum thoroughly washed away.

But throughout the ecclesiastical society traditional bonds were loosened and anarchy was rife, and this at the very moment when the enemies of the priesthood and its leaders redoubled their attack.

Twice it was loosened --once, for a short time, after twenty years, and again, for a longer period, during the Civil War - but it never was broken.

In a word, the natural cohesion of the Danish nation had been loosened and there was no security for law and justice.

For he left no heir to carry on his work; his death " loosened the bonds which restrained the disruptive forces always ready to operate in India, and allowed them to produce their normal result, a medley of petty states, with ever-varying boundaries, and engaged in unceasing internecine war."

The earliest picture of a press shows roughly the construction to have been that of an upright frame, the power exerted by a movable handle, placed in a screw which was tightened up to secure the requisite impression, and was loosened again after the impression was obtained.

Apart from the Tartarides, the Pedipalpi are large or medium-sized Arachnida, nocturnal in habits and spending the day under stones, logs of wood or loosened bark.

It is, however, now more generally believed that it exists in the breccia of some of the valleys on the west side of the lake, which is washed into the sea and submerged, till the small stones by which it is sunk are loosened and fall out, when the bitumen rises to the surface.

These cordial ties were loosened, however, by the fresh crisis in the Eastern Question after 1838.

As it tolled its final gong, Edith Shipton appeared, in her late night attire— the Annie Quincy white dress—her hair loosened about her shoulders.

Here the rocks were smaller, and he soon loosened them enough to allow him to squeeze through.

Her grip on his hand tightened, while she loosened her grip on the foreign magic in her body.

She loosened her grip on him, sensing he wasn't going to leave, whatever his mood was.

Shipton leaned to his right and began to chip away at a large outcrop of ice directly above Dean, laughing as a loosened piece tumbled downward, striking Dean's exposed head, nearly knocking him senseless.

Elisabeth blushed and loosened her grip on the sketchpad.

He ceased drinking, but still allowed venom to flow freely until she finally loosened her grip, exhausted.

Her pain faded, and she drew a shaky breath as the tension in her chest loosened.

Startled, he loosened his grip as he tried to snatch her arm and nearly dropped her.

In times of peace it is kept under, but during war, or whenever the bands of civil order are loosened, it becomes a cause of anxiety and a source of danger.

We cannot suppose that there occurred, at or about the commencement of the 19th century, a breach of historical continuity of such a character that institutions, customs, laws and social conventions were suddenly swept away, the bonds of society loosened, and the state and people of England dissolved into an aggregate of competing individuals.

As we have seen, Grotthus imagined that it was the electric forces which sheared the ions past each other and loosened the chemical bonds holding the opposite parts of each dissolved molecule together.

The material of the bank being loosened by blasting and the cutting action of the water, crumbles into holes, and the superincumbent mass, often with large trees and stones, falls into the lower ground.

The course of events harmonized with the anticlerical views of Talleyrand, and he gradually loosened the ties that bound him to the church.

The French halted, somewhat loosened by pursuit, between Rossomme and Genappe and spent a wretched night in the sodden fields.

Take care to have braids loosened that appear too tight as well as braids that feel too tight.

Interestingly enough, in Mexico, the government loosened restrictions and allowed themes such as racism, homosexuality and urban violence to be featured more prominently in Mexican telenovelas.

Easy yoga for arthritis encompasses a gentle program of yoga exercises to promote strong muscles, loosened joints and improved circulation of the muscoskeletal system.

He loosened his tie and rolled his sleeves up, exposing weather darkened forearms.