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loosen

English

  1. 🔊 become loose or looser or less tight
    “The noose loosened”
  2. 🔊 make loose or looser
    “loosen the tension on a rope”
  3. 🔊 make less dense
    “loosen the soil”
  4. 🔊 become less severe or strict
    “The rules relaxed after the new director arrived”
  5. 🔊 make less severe or strict
    “The government relaxed the curfew after most of the rebels were caught”
  6. 🔊 cause to become loose
    “undo the shoelace”
  7. 🔊 disentangle and raise the fibers of
    “tease wool”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 aflojar to loosen
  2. 🔊 destensar to loosen, to untighten

Similar words

relax loose loose untie undo tease tease apart relax relax abate bate cast off cushion cut apart detach diffuse discharge disengage disenthrall disjoin disperse doff ease ease off