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loosening 音标拼音: [l'usənɪŋ] 松散 松散 loosening n 1: an occurrence of control or strength weakening; "the relaxation of requirements"; "the loosening of his grip"; "the slackening of the wind" [synonym: {relaxation}, {loosening}, {slackening}] 2: the act of making something less tight [synonym: {loosening}, {laxation}] [ant: {tightening}] Loosen \Loos"en\ (l[=oo]s"'n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Loosened} (l[=oo]s"'nd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Loosening}.] [See {Loose}, v. t.] 1. To make loose; to free from tightness, tension, firmness, or fixedness; to make less dense or compact; as, to loosen a string, or a knot; to loosen a rock in the earth. [1913 Webster] After a year's rooting, then shaking doth the tree good by loosening of the earth. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] 2. To free from restraint; to set at liberty.. [1913 Webster] It loosens his hands, and assists his understanding. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 3. To remove costiveness from; to facilitate or increase the alvine discharges of. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] 62 Moby Thesaurus words for "loosening":
abatement, allayment, alleviation, assuagement, blunting, calming, carelessness, damping, deadening, demulcent, demulsion, diminution, dulcification, dulling, easiness, easing, easygoingness, emollient, falling-off, hushing, impotence, imprecision, indifference, laxity, laxness, leniency, lessening, letdown, letup, lightening, looseness, lulling, mitigation, modulation, mollification, mollifying, negligence, overindulgence, overpermissiveness, pacification, palliation, permissiveness, quietening, quieting, reduction, relaxation, relaxedness, relaxing, remission, remissness, slackening, slackness, sloppiness, softening, softness, soothing, subduement, subduing, tempering, tranquilization, unrestraint, weakness
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