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- secure your neckerchief with a loose knot
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- the car wheels slipped on the loose gravel in the driveway
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- we tend to be loose with the dress code when we aren't hosting clients at the office
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- there was a brief panic when the lion got loose from its cage at the zoo
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- a loose guess about the size of the crowd at the outdoor concert
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- the loose life that he led in the years before he settled down and found his path
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- bent
- [chiefly British],
- crooked,
- cutthroat,
- dishonest,
- unethical,
- unprincipled,
- unscrupulous
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loose
verbSynonyms & Antonyms of loose (Entry 2 of 2)
- the archers loosed a great volley of arrows at the foot soldiers charging towards them
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- do not loose your pent-up frustrations on the next person who happens by
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- the ranchers loosed the horses from their stables and into the paddock
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- discharge,
- disenthrall
- (also disenthral),
- emancipate,
- enfranchise,
- enlarge,
- free,
- liberate,
- loosen,
- manumit,
- release,
- spring,
- unbind,
- uncage,
- unchain,
- unfetter
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- the storm loosed its full fury when it hit the coastline at high tide
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“Loose.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/loose. Accessed 27 Oct. 2020.
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The first known use of loose was in the 13th century
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