loosen

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To make loose.

   “to loosen a knot; to loosen one's grip / hold on something”

2. fiil To become loose.

   “I noticed that my seatbelt had gradually loosened during the journey.”

3. fiil To disengage (a device that restrains).

   “At Liberty th’ unfetter’d Captive stands, And flings the loosen’d Shackles from his Hands.”

4. fiil To become unfastened or undone.

   “Immediately my Shackles loosened and fell away of themselves […]”

5. fiil To free from restraint; to set at liberty.

   “This is an admirable Rule; a Painter ought to have it perpetually present in his Mind and Memory. […] it loosens his hands, and assists his understanding.”

6. fiil To relieve (the bowels) from constipation; to promote defecation.

   “1626, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum: or A Naturall Historie, London: William Lee, Century 1, p. 14, […] Feare looseneth the Belly; because the Heat retiring inwards towards the Heart, the Gutts and other Parts are relaxed;”

7. fiil To create a breach or rift between (two parties).

   “I had rather lose the battle than that sister Should loosen him and me.”

8. fiil To sail away (from the shore).

   “[…] after the .iiii. day of oure arryuall in Britayne, the eightene shyps that we spake of before, which hadde the horsemen to conuey ouer, loosened from the further hauen with a soft wynd.”