loosed

VERB

set free; unbind

Synonyms

WEAK

alleviate become unfastened break up deliver detach discharge disconnect disengage disenthrall disjoin ease ease off emancipate extricate free let go let out liberate manumit mitigate relax release separate slacken unbar unbolt unbuckle unbutton unchain unclasp undo unfasten unfix unhitch unhook unlace unlash unlatch unleash unlock unloose unpin unscrew unsnap unstick unstrap untie untighten work free work loose

Antonyms

WEAK

bind limit restrict tighten

Example Sentences

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Loosed onto La Guardia Place, a quiet street adjacent to Washington Square Park in Manhattan, participants begin a single-file walk around and through the neighboring blocks.

From New York Times • Jun. 24, 2022

Loosed on the resonating field of fiction, however, it ripens into something richer: a mystery.

From New York Times • Oct. 3, 2019

Loosed on the world, Atamanuik’s impression is deliriously funny.

From The New Yorker • May 8, 2017

"Woman Thou Art Loosed: On the 7th Day," Code Black Entertainment, $641,542, 102 locations, $6,290 average, $641,542, one week.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 16, 2012

Long before he had approach’d her dwelling, Far, far off his sister saw and hail’d him; p. 48Hastened to him—threw her on his bosom, Loosed his vest, and stamp’d his cheeks with kisses.

From Servian Popular Poetry by Bowring, John