Word Meanings - LOOSEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Etym: 1. To make loose; to free from tightness, tension, firmness, or fixedness; to make less dense or compact; as, to loosen a string, or a knot; to loosen a rock in the earth. After a year's rooting, then shaking doth the tree good by loosening

Additional info about word: LOOSEN

Etym: 1. To make loose; to free from tightness, tension, firmness, or fixedness; to make less dense or compact; as, to loosen a string, or a knot; to loosen a rock in the earth. After a year's rooting, then shaking doth the tree good by loosening of the earth. Bacon. 2. To free from restraint; to set at liberty.. It loosens his hands, and assists his understanding. Dryden. 3. To remove costiveness from; to facilitate or increase the alvine discharges of. Bacon.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of LOOSEN)

• Relax
• Slacken
• loosen
• remit
• abate
• mitigate
• release
• unbend
• relent
• divert
• recreate
• rest
• enervate
• Unstring
• Shake
• Agitate
• weaken
• oscillate
• totter
• convulse
• tremble
• jar
• quiver
• shiver
• Loosen
• withhold
• languish
• flag
• moderate

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of LOOSEN)

• Bind
• constrain
• confine
• shackle
• fetter
• yoke

Related words: (words related to LOOSEN)

• RELENT
  1. To become less rigid or hard; to yield; to dissolve; to melt; to deliquesce. He stirred the coals till relente gan The wax again the fire. Chaucer. placed in a cellar will . . . begin to relent. Boyle. When opening buds salute the welcome day,
• UNSTRIPED
  Without marks or striations; nonstriated; as, unstriped muscle fibers. (more info) 1. Not striped.
• RELAXANT
  A medicine that relaxes; a laxative.
• REMIT
  1. To abate in force or in violence; to grow less intense; to become moderated; to abate; to relax; as, a fever remits; the severity of the weather remits. 2. To send money, as in payment. Addison.
• SHIVER-SPAR
  A variety of calcite, so called from its slaty structure; -- called also slate spar.
• AGITATE
  1. To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. "Winds . . . agitate the air." Cowper. 2. To move or actuate. Thomson. 3. To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly
• SHAKE
  A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff above or below it; a trill. (more info) 1. The act or result of shaking; a vacillating or wavering motion; a rapid motion one way and other;
• ABATER
  One who, or that which, abates.
• ABATE
  1. To decrease, or become less in strength or violence; as, pain abates, a storm abates. The fury of Glengarry . . . rapidly abated. Macaulay. 2. To be defeated, or come to naught; to fall through; to fail; as, a writ abates. To abate
• RELAXATIVE
  Having the quality of relaxing; laxative. -- n.
• CONSTRAINTIVE
  Constraining; compulsory. "Any constraintive vow." R. Carew.
• TOTTER
  1. To shake so as to threaten a fall; to vacillate; to be unsteady; to stagger; as,an old man totters with age. "As a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence." Ps. lxii. 3. 2. To shake; to reel; to lean; to waver. Troy nods from high,
• FETTERLESS
  Free from fetters. Marston.
• DIVERTING
  Amusing; entertaining. -- Di*vert"ing*ly, adv. -- Di*vert"ing*ness, n.
• SHACKLE
  1. To tie or confine the limbs of, so as to prevent free motion; to bind with shackles; to fetter; to chain. To lead him shackled, and exposed to scorn Of gathering crowds, the Britons' boasted chief. J. Philips. 2. Figuratively: To bind or confine
• TREMBLE
  1. To shake involuntarily, as with fear, cold, or weakness; to quake; to quiver; to shiver; to shudder; -- said of a person or an animal. I tremble still with fear. Shak. Frighted Turnus trembled as he spoke. Dryden. 2. To totter; to shake; --
• UNSTRAINED
  1. Not strained; not cleared or purified by straining; as, unstrained oil or milk. 2. Not forced; easy; natural; as, a unstrained deduction or inference. Hakewill.
• LOOSEN
  Etym: 1. To make loose; to free from tightness, tension, firmness, or fixedness; to make less dense or compact; as, to loosen a string, or a knot; to loosen a rock in the earth. After a year's rooting, then shaking doth the tree good by loosening
• RELEASE
  To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
• UNSTRIATED
  Nonstriated; unstriped.
• SUPREMITY
  Supremacy. Fuller.
• DISSHIVER
  To shiver or break in pieces.
• CONFINER
  One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
• WIND-SHAKEN
  Shaken by the wind; specif. ,
• EFFLAGITATE
  To ask urgently. Cockeram.
• EREMITE
  A hermit. Thou art my heaven, and I thy eremite. Keats.
• HEREMITICAL
  Of or pertaining to a hermit; solitary; secluded from society. Pope.
• TITTER-TOTTER
  See TEETER
• INDIVERTIBLE
  Not to be diverted or turned aside. Lamb.
• OVERSHAKE
  To shake over or away; to drive away; to disperse. Chaucer.