Dictionary Entry
loosen
loosen is a 6-letter English word with 11 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 8 · 11 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
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.
- 2transitive verb
To free from restraint; to set at liberty..
- 3transitive verb
To remove costiveness from; to facilitate or increase the alvine discharges of.
- 4intransitive verb
To become loose; to become less tight, firm, or compact.
- 5verb
become loose or looser or less tight
"The noose loosened"
"the rope relaxed"
- 6verb
make loose or looser
"loosen the tension on a rope"
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- 7verb
make less dense
"loosen the soil"
- 8verb
cause to become loose
"undo the shoelace"
"untie the knot"
- 9verb
disentangle and raise the fibers of
"tease wool"
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- 10verb
become less severe or strict
"The rules relaxed after the new director arrived"
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- 11verb
make less severe or strict
"The government relaxed the curfew after most of the rebels were caught"
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