unloose
Americanverb (used with object)
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to loosen or relax (the grasp, hold, fingers, etc.).
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to let loose or set free; free from restraint.
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to undo or untie (a fastening, knot, etc.); unfasten.
verb
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to set free; release
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to loosen or relax (a hold, grip, etc)
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to unfasten or untie
Etymology
Origin of unloose
Example Sentences
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I unloose the cow and leave her and her newborn to each other.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 22, 2018
And in a way this has stifled exactly the sort of catharsis the play is supposed to unloose.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 3, 2014
In the equivalent of flight attendants becoming pilots, caddies became players seven days a week, not merely on Monday mornings, when the clubs where they worked might unloose them onto largely vacant courses.
From New York Times ● Apr. 10, 2010
At a subsequent Cabinet meeting the decision was made to unloose purse strings on rocket work whenever McElroy could prove that he needed the money.
From Time Magazine Archive
The continents strain to unloose themselves, to drift reckless and heavy in the seas.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
The right to have the stays of gender unloosed, the right to breathe.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 8, 2018
As the story opens, the good people of Aldwinter are wondering whether an earthquake has unloosed their old monster from the estuary depths.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 5, 2017
We see her dark hair unloosed, a cascade of black.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 11, 2016
Try as the author might to feel affinity for the unloosed and the wandering, it doesn't always happen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2015
This soon became clear when a platoon of otters on the ramparts unloosed a rattling fusillade of heavy pebbles.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
And, in the San Francisco Bay Area, burrowing rodents may be digging into entombed trash at a landfill-turned-park, unloosing explosive levels of methane.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2025
But, unfortunately, if the contagion spreads to all the elements of our planet, the consequences of unloosing such a cataclysm can only be viewed with apprehension.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2023
The effect has been an unloosing of hysteria upon the land.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 3, 2018
Our disruption of the natural world, “Spillover” declares, is largely to blame for unloosing terrible microbes.
From New York Times ● Oct. 2, 2012
He was always well doing, giving sight to the blind, healing the sick, cleansing the leper, feeding the hungry, raising the dead, unloosing the bonds of Satan—unwinding the serpent’s coil.
From Christ, Christianity and the Bible by Isaac Massey Haldeman
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