UNLOOSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unloose mean? 

• UNLOOSE (verb)
  The verb UNLOOSE has 2 senses:

1. grant freedom to; free from confinement

2. loosen the ties of

  Familiarity information: UNLOOSE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNLOOSE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they unloose    ... he / she / it unlooses   
Past simple: unloosed   
Past participle: unloosed   
-ing form: unloosing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Grant freedom to; free from confinement

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

free; liberate; loose; release; unloose; unloosen

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "unloose"):

unspell (release from a spell)

unchain (make free)

bail (release after a security has been paid)

run (set animals loose to graze)

bail out (free on bail)

parole (release a criminal from detention and place him on parole)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sentence example:

They want to unloose the prisoners

Sense 2

Meaning:

Loosen the ties of

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

unloose; unloosen

Context example:

unloose your sneakers

Hypernyms (to "unloose" is one way to...):

unbrace; unlace; untie (undo the ties of)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

 Context examples 

He held something which flashed in his right hand, and he stooped at the threshold to unloose the black hound.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He sprang up and rushed across the stable to unloose the dog.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The words unloosed a tempest.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This ominous tool she presented to Miss Scatcherd with a respectful curtesy; then she quietly, and without being told, unloosed her pinafore, and the teacher instantly and sharply inflicted on her neck a dozen strokes with the bunch of twigs.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)