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• v  grant freedom to; free from confinement
• v  loosen the ties of
  unloose your sneakers

• The oil millionaires have yet to unloose their purse strings for the Democratic campaign chest (Nixon publicly promised to preserve their 27% oil-depletion allowance).
• There was little doubt that the Red Army was ready to unloose the flood all along the Stettin-Dresden front.
• C, Elliott and Ruth Nugent, best recalled for Kempy, tell another of their artless histories and in the telling unloose a moderate amount of laughter.

• free
• liberate
• release
• unloosen
• loose

• confine