loosen
/ˈlusən/ verbo B2En español: aflojar, soltar, arriar, filar
- To make loose. · to loosen a knot; to loosen one's grip / hold on something· After the Thanksgiving meal, Bill loosened his belt.
- To become loose. · I noticed that my seatbelt had gradually loosened during the journey.
- To disengage (a device that restrains).
- To become unfastened or undone.
- To free from restraint; to set at liberty.
- To relieve (the bowels) from constipation; to promote defecation.
He/she/it loosens · Pasado loosened · Participio pasado loosened · Forma en -ing loosening
Formas del verbo
- Forma base
- loosen
- He/she/it
- loosens
- Pasado
- loosened
- Participio pasado
- loosened
- Forma en -ing
- loosening
Phrasal verbs y expresiones
De la biblioteca
They won’t get this jumble loosened up in an hour.
In the first place, I was four years making the tools I possess, and have been two years scraping and digging out earth, hard as granite itself; then what toil and fatigue has it not been to remove huge stones I should once have deemed impossible to loosen.
In this passage he proposed to drive a level as they do in mines; this level would bring the two prisoners immediately beneath the gallery where the sentry kept watch; once there, a large excavation would be made, and one of the flag-stones with which the gallery was paved be so completely loosened that at the desired moment it would give way beneath the feet of the soldier, who, stunned by his fall, would be immediately bound and gagged by Dantès before he had power to offer any resistance.
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