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.
The conventions were loosened, and yet retained as far as the kind of halo they brought with them was serviceable.
Arguably, democracy loosened the constraints imposed on interest groups and provided them with more effective avenues to voice their concerns.
Eligibility criteria have been loosened and coverage increased so as to accommodate older workers with limited prospects of reemployment.
Eventually physical chemistry was loosened from chemistry in the same way that, somewhat later, chemical physics was emancipated from physics.
Yet the passions are the source of pleasure; only when they are loosened from the domination of reason can one experience a pleasurable state.
This is often loosened to mean only each content word in a text.
The fraternal and sisterly tie and all family ties are loosened as a consequence of discontinuance of family life.
After all, this was a society in which the chains of patriarchy were rattled and loosened by abysmal, excessively high mortality rates.
