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loosen
  • v  make loose or looser
    loosen the tension on a rope
  • v  make less severe or strict
  • v  become less severe or strict
  • v  disentangle and raise the fibers of
  • v  cause to become loose
    loosen the necktie
  • v  make less dense
    loosen the soil
  • v  become loose or looser or less tight
    The noose loosened
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loosen up
  • v  cause to become unblocked
  • v  become less tense, less formal, or less restrained, and assume a friendlier manner
  • v  make one's body limber or suppler by stretching, as if to prepare for strenuous physical activity
  • v  become less tense, rest, or take one's ease
  • v  cause to feel relaxed
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lop
  • v  cut off from a whole
  • v  cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
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lose
  • v  fail to keep or to maintain; cease to have, either physically or in an abstract sense
  • v  fail to win
  • v  suffer the loss of a person through death or removal
  • v  place (something) where one cannot find it again
  • v  miss from one's possessions; lose sight of
  • v  allow to go out of sight
  • v  fail to make money in a business; make a loss or fail to profit
  • v  fail to get or obtain
  • v  retreat
  • v  fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind
  • v  be set at a disadvantage
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