loose
/lus/ verb B2- To let loose, to free from restraints.
- To unfasten, to loosen.
- To make less tight, to loosen.
- Of a grip or hold, to let go.
- To shoot (an arrow).
He/she/it looses · Past loosed · Past participle loosed · -ing form loosing
Verb forms
- Base form
- loose
- He/she/it
- looses
- Past
- loosed
- Past participle
- loosed
- -ing form
- loosing
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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“There used to be a dog let loose in the yard at night, but it has been taken to the house at Auteuil, to that you went to, you know.”
A countryman saw them, and running up, loosed the coil of the Serpent and let the Eagle go free.
Cecil Barker’s tall, loose-jointed figure was a familiar one in the main street of Birlstone village; for he was a frequent and welcome visitor at the Manor House.
White Mason was a quiet, comfortable-looking person in a loose tweed suit, with a clean-shaved, ruddy face, a stoutish body, and powerful bandy legs adorned with gaiters, looking like a small farmer, a retired gamekeeper, or anything upon earth except a very favourable specimen of the provincial criminal officer.
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