Main entry: loose, loosen, relax
Definition: become loose or looser or less tight
Usage: The noose loosened; the rope relaxed
Definition: make loose or looser
Usage: loosen the tension on a rope
Main entry: unleash, let loose, loose
Definition: turn loose or free from restraint
Usage: let loose mines; Loose terrible plagues upon humanity
Main entry: release, liberate, loose, free, unloose, unloosen
Definition: grant freedom to; free from confinement
Definition: not affixed
Usage: the stamp came loose
Main entry: easy, promiscuous, light, loose, wanton, sluttish
Definition: casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior
Usage: her easy virtue; he was told to avoid loose (or light) women; wanton behavior
Main entry: loose
Definition: not compact or dense in structure or arrangement
Usage: loose gravel
Main entry: loose
Definition: (of a ball in sport) not in the possession or control of any player
Usage: a loose ball
Definition: emptying easily or excessively
Usage: loose bowels
Main entry: liberal, loose, free
Definition: not literal
Usage: a loose interpretation of what she had been told; a free translation of the poem
Main entry: escaped, loose, at large, on the loose
Definition: having escaped, especially from confinement
Usage: a convict still at large; searching for two escaped prisoners; dogs loose on the streets; criminals on the loose in the neighborhood
Main entry: loose
Definition: not tight; not closely constrained or constricted or constricting
Usage: loose clothing; the large shoes were very loose
Definition: not officially recognized or controlled
Usage: an informal agreement; a loose organization of the local farmers
Main entry: loose
Definition: not carefully arranged in a package
Usage: a box of loose nails
Definition: lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility
Usage: idle talk; a loose tongue
Definition: (of textures) full of small openings or gaps
Usage: an open texture; a loose weave
Definition: not tense or taut
Usage: the old man's skin hung loose and grey; slack and wrinkled skin; slack sails; a slack rope
Definition: without restraint
Usage: cows in India are running loose