LOOSENED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does loosened mean? 

• LOOSENED (adjective)
  The adjective LOOSENED has 1 sense:

1. straightened out

  Familiarity information: LOOSENED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOOSENED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Straightened out

Synonyms:

disentangled; loosened; unsnarled

Similar:

untangled (not tangled)

 Context examples 

Matt took hold of White Fang, ready to pull when Cherokee's jaws should be loosened.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

She nodded, with a slightly arch expression, and loosened the scarf at her throat.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I was conscious of a dull pain, my grip loosened, and I fell into the garden below.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I'm bound to say that he managed to get some fruit to us, and with his own hands he loosened our bonds.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The faster spin rate loosened chunks of material, which are drifting off into space.

(Hubble Takes Close-up Look at Disintegrating Comet, NASA)

He was taking off my shawl in the hall, and shaking the water out of my loosened hair, when Mrs. Fairfax emerged from her room.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The threat might not have loosened Jim’s grip, but the voice did.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“It is nothing, my fair lord,” said Alleyne, who had now loosened his bassinet, which was cracked across by the Norman's blow.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The earth round the spike had been left on the table, and a second sample was loosened and fell in the bedroom.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He cleared the hilt of his cutlass and loosened the blade in the sheath; and all the time we were waiting there he kept swallowing as if he felt what we used to call a lump in the throat.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)