0 past simple and past participle of loosen
2 to make something such as your hair or a piece of clothing less tight:
He loosened his tie.
Nailed either to small hand cards, or to large cylinders in carding machines, this process loosened matted wool without combing it straight.
In the process it suggests that the constraints of the 'imperial paradigm ' need to be loosened a little.
These moments occupy marginal, transitory social spaces where the identities, relationships, and norms of everyday behavior are loosened.
Surely, those notions only make sense if ' word meaning ' is taken to consist in ' a concept ' (which might then need to be narrowed or loosened).
Disregarding some restrictions in application can make patterns more general while loosened restrictions can result in incorrect results.
The criteria for private preemption should be loosened in appropriate, limited cases.
All the other links in the middle are now loosened and will fall.
After all, this was a society in which the chains of patriarchy were rattled and loosened by abysmal, excessively high mortality rates.
