Loosen

(verb.) become loose or looser or less tight; 'The noose loosened'; 'the rope relaxed'.

(verb.) make loose or looser; 'loosen the tension on a rope'.

(verb.) make less dense; 'loosen the soil'.

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• Gerty knelt beside her, waiting, with the patience born of experience, till this gust of misery should loosen fresh speech. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• She might as well have tried to loosen, by her soft touch, metal welded to metal. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• I put my arm behind me to loosen my pistol. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• Seeing the horses had seemed to bring this all to a head in him and seeing that Robert Jordan knew horses had seemed to loosen his tongue. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• The duties which they perform are to loosen the earth, destroy the weeds, and throw the loosened earth around the growing plant. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• For God's sake don't loosen them any yet. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• I take from thy vision darkness; I loosen from thy faculties fetters! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The ice in the can is then loosened by warm water, and the block dumped through the door into a chute, whence it passes into the storage room below, seen in Fig. 298. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The man mastered himself with a violent effort, and his grim mouth loosened into a false laugh, which was more menacing than his frown. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Morning broke; and the old woman saw the corpse, marked with the fatal disease, close to her; her wrist was livid with the hold loosened by death. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• As Miss Abbey helped her to turn her chair, her loosened bonnet dropped on the floor. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• He was taking off my shawl in the hall, and shaking the water out of my loosened hair, when Mrs. Fairfax emerged from her room. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• The soft hair whose locks were loosened she rearranged, the damp brow she refreshed with a cool, fragrant essence. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• My tongue was loosened at that. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• In these later days there is in fact, a decided loosening in the creed. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The sides are then run through lime vats for the purpose of loosening the hair. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• It may have been a signal for loosening the general tongue. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• He let her get some distance, then, loosening his limbs, he went after her. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• And now, indeed, I felt as if my last anchor were loosening its hold, and I should soon be driving with the winds and waves. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• I saw him, while I was detained by the loosening of a girth, struggling with the upward path, seemingly more difficult than any we had yet passed. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• It seemed as if it fascinated him to see her push it up impatiently, until it tightened her soft flesh; and then to mark the loosening--the fall. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.

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