unloosen
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of unloosen
Example Sentences
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So, all viewers will have to do is kick back with remote in hand, maybe unloosen their belts a notch or two, and enjoy the action.
From Los Angeles Times
We can’t just open the pen doors and unloosen all the chains.
From The Guardian
On Monday evening, a group of high school boys still in uniform, ironed ties unloosened, wandered through Harcourt Road, a village of bright tents and signs urging, “If Not You, Then Who?”
From Time
Even now, although not less than a thousand, or as some say even more than 3,400, years have passed, the structure is uninjured, and the joints of the stones unloosened.
From Project Gutenberg
But I felt myself so far helpless in the presence of it, that I stayed on until the smell of the roast unloosened all the joints of my resolution.
From Project Gutenberg
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