LOOSEN, LOOSENED, LOOSENING
ADJECTIVES
1731 ► ABSTRICTED loosened, unbound → obs. (Bk.)
NOUNS
1398 ► LAXATION the act of loosening or relaxing; the state of being loosened or relaxed
1650 ► ABSTRICTION a loosening or unbinding → obs.
VERBS
1250 ► LEESE to loosen, to unloose; to unfasten, to open; to relax the body → obs.
1475 ► UNBRACE to undo, to loosen or untie
1623 ► LAXATE to loosen, to relax → obs.
1656 ► ELAXATE to loosen; to widen → obs.
1731 ► ABSTRINGE to unbind or loosen → obs. (Bk.)
1889 ► UNGIVE to relax, to give way, to loosen; to melt, to thaw → Eng. dial.
1938 ► HEMO to loosen, to remove, to separate → Hawaii
2005 ► WALLOW OUT to loosen something from the ground by working it back and forth → Amer. dial.
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