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loosening 音標拼音: [l'usənɪŋ] 松散 鬆散 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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