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LOOSEN

1. To create loose; to free from tightness, tension, firmness, or fixedness; to create smaller dense or compact; as, to loosen a string, or a knot; to loosen a rock in the land. "After a year's rooting, then shaking doth the wood good by loosening of the earth." (Bacon) 2. To free from restraint; to set at liberty. "It loosens his hands, and assists his understanding." (Dryden) 3. To remove costiveness from; to facilitate or magnify the alvine discharges of. Origin: See Loose. Source: Websters Vocabulary
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