Similar words: loosen, loosen up, loosened, looseness, loose-fitting, lessening, worsening, loose. Meaning: ['luːsn] 
n. 1. an occurrence of control or strength weakening 2. the act of making something less tight.
n. 1. an occurrence of control or strength weakening 2. the act of making something less tight. 
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1. He is loosening the soil in his garden.
2. The runners are loosening up before the race.
3. The ties that bind them together are loosening.
4. Dancers were loosening up before going on stage.
5. The runners are just loosening up before the race.
6. Domestic conditions did not justify a loosening of monetary policy.
7. The deputy leader is cautious about loosening the links with the unions.
8. Omar said, loosening his tie.
9. Lois snipped the wires before loosening the screws.
10. This knot keeps loosening.
11. The torrents are loosening high mountain rocks and soil, and are washing downstream with the gravel tiny flakes of gold.
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12. The result has been some unbundling, loosening and decentralizing of control in some societies and in some organizations on some tasks.
13. I repaired the steel door years ago, loosening the rusted hinges and straightening the guides for the bolt.
14. But this was not taken to mean any loosening of the monopoly of political power by the Bolsheviks.
15. This created the climate for a degree of loosening of central control on the curriculum in the 1902 Education Act.
16. The fund last year changed its charter, loosening the provision that restricted its investment portfolio to 100 percent dividend-paying stocks.
17. Then taking off his tunic and loosening his tie, he picked up the telephone.
18. She tried loosening and retying the robe to be more revealing.
19. The only loosening occurs with a late botched suicide attempt[sentencedict.com], the result of depression after Cissy's death.
20. He felt that things were loosening and slipping from his grasp.
21. First, evidence of the loosening of family bonds is unequivocal.
22. Bank officials remain opposed to loosening monetary policy by printing money.
23. Her hand was loosening his tie, his was sliding up the tingling curve of her thigh.
24. We like the sight of them taking advantage of a new-era spirit by loosening the shackles of third world debt.
25. The difficulty this offered Franco was that, to his authoritarian mentality, loosening control was synonymous with losing it.
26. From 1987, as in church affairs, controls were slowly loosening up in the arts and the professions.
27. In older patients this effect can cause bone loss and loosening of alumina based implants.
28. Accumulations of dust can be removed with a small vacuum cleaner after loosening with a dry, soft bristle brush.
29. He took a screwdriver from his pocket and began loosening the screws that secured the steel bars to the window frame.
30. It will be intriguing to see how Brecht's play stands up at a time when Communism is loosening its ideological hold.
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