Found 2 hits - Term: loosing, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
loose \loose\ l=oos, v. n. imp. p. p. loosed
l=oost; p. pr. vb. n. loosing. from loose, a.
1. to untie or unbind; to free from any fastening; to remove
the shackles or fastenings of; to set free; to relieve.
1913 webster
canst thou . . . loose the bands of orion ? --job.
xxxviii. 31.
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ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her;
loose them, and bring them unto me. --matt. xxi.
2.
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2. to release from anything obligatory or burdensome; to
disengage; hence, to absolve; to remit.
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art thou loosed from a wife ? seek not a wife. --1
cor. vii. 27.
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whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed
in heaven. --matt. xvi.
19.
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3. to relax; to loosen; to make less strict.
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the joints of his loins were loosed. --dan. v. 6.
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4. to solve; to interpret. obs. --spenser.
1913 webster
see also:
loosed loosing loose
- [2] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
30 moby thesaurus words for "loosing":
demobilization, discharge, dismissal, parole, release, unbinding,
unbolting, unbridling, unbuckling, uncaging, unchaining,
unfettering, ungagging, unhanding, unharnessing, unhobbling,
unlashing, unlatching, unleashing, unlocking, unloosing,
unmanacling, unmuzzling, unpenning, unshackling, unstrapping,
untethering, untrussing, untying, unyoking
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