English to English adjective
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not compact or dense in structure or arrangement |  | Example: loose gravel
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not tight; not closely constrained or constricted or constricting |  | Example: loose clothing the large shoes were very loose
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not affixed |  | Example: the stamp came loose
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Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book. |  | source: webster1913 adjective satellite
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(of a ball in sport) not in the possession or control of any player |  | Example: a loose ball
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not officially recognized or controlled |  | Example: an informal agreement a loose organization of the local farmers
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not literal |  | Example: a loose interpretation of what she had been told a free translation of the poem
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emptying easily or excessively |  | Example: loose bowels
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not tense or taut |  | Example: the old man's skin hung loose and grey slack and wrinkled skin slack sails a slack rope
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(of textures) full of small openings or gaps |  | Example: an open texture a loose weave
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lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility |  | Example: idle talk a loose tongue
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not carefully arranged in a package |  | Example: a box of loose nails
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having escaped, especially from confinement |  | Example: a convict still at large searching for two escaped prisoners dogs loose on the streets criminals on the loose in the neighborhood
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casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior |  | Example: her easy virtue he was told to avoid loose (or light) women wanton behavior
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without restraint |  | Example: cows in India are running loose
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Freedom from restraint. |  | source: webster1913 verb
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grant freedom to; free from confinement |  | source: wordnet30
18 |
turn loose or free from restraint |  | Example: let loose mines Loose terrible plagues upon humanity
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make loose or looser |  | Example: loosen the tension on a rope
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20 |
become loose or looser or less tight |  | Example: The noose loosened the rope relaxed
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To untie or unbind; to free from any fastening; to remove the shackles or fastenings of; to set free; to relieve. |  | source: webster1913
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To set sail. |  | source: webster1913
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