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Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995.

loose

VERB:	1. To reduce in tension, pressure, or rigidity: ease, let up, loosen, relax, slack, slacken, untighten. See TIGHTEN. 2. To set at liberty: discharge, emancipate, free, liberate, manumit, release. Slang : spring. Idioms: let loose. See FREE. 3. To launch with great force: fire, hurtle, project, propel, shoot. Idioms: let fly. See MOVE. 4. To free from ties or fasteners: disengage, loosen, slip, unbind, unclasp, undo, unfasten, unloose, unloosen, untie. See TIGHTEN.
ADJECTIVE:	1. Able to move about at will without bounds or restraint: free, unconfined, unrestrained. Idioms: at large, at liberty, free as a bird, on the loose. See FREE. 2. Lacking literal exactness: free, inexact. See PRECISE. 3. Not tautly bound, held, or fastened: lax, relaxed, slack. See TIGHTEN. 4. Marked by an absence of conventional restraint in sexual behavior; sexually unrestrained: easy, fast, libertine, light², wanton, whorish. See SEX.


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