loosen
relax
loose
slacken
tighten
unanchor
slackness
slack
shorten
loosen up
untie
constrict
constringe
narrow
unloose
contract
untighten
fasten
looser
lax
shoal
shallow
loll
slacken off
droop
prolapse
sagged
soften
transversal
single
tight
squeeze
light up
free
undo
taut
measure one's length
forestretch
sink
slide down
slump
rax
thin
taper
lag
let loose
fall behind
thin out
fall back
untightened
dawdle
unleash
weaken
unthicken
inspissate
loose as a goose
bellying
taper off
spill
attenuate
run out
thicken
unbend
diminish
straitened
waning
hug
porrect
drop down
drop
stank
lose weight
minorize
belly out
sinking
come down to
bottleneck
trip up
untressed
dilute
ebb
slide
lax
sagged
transversal
tight
free
taut
untightened
loose as a goose
bellying
straitened
waning
untressed
porrect
slackness
slack
looser
sinking
loosen
relax
loose
slacken
tighten
unanchor
shorten
loosen up
untie
constrict
constringe
narrow
unloose
contract
untighten
fasten
shoal
shallow
loll
slacken off
droop
prolapse
soften
single
squeeze
light up
undo
measure one's length
forestretch
sink
slide down
slump
rax
thin
taper
lag
let loose
fall behind
thin out
fall back
dawdle
unleash
weaken
unthicken
inspissate
taper off
spill
attenuate
run out
thicken
unbend
diminish
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porrect
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drop
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lose weight
minorize
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come down to
bottleneck
trip up
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verb
- become loose or looser or less tight
- make loose or looser
- turn loose or free from restraint
- grant freedom to; free from confinement
adj
- (of a ball in sport) not in the possession or control of any player
- not officially recognized or controlled
- not literal
- emptying easily or excessively
- not tense or taut
- (of textures) full of small openings or gaps
- lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility
- not carefully arranged in a package
- having escaped, especially from confinement
- casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior
adj
- not compact or dense in structure or arrangement
- not tight; not closely constrained or constricted or constricting
- not affixed
adv
noun
- the quality of being loose (not taut)
- dust consisting of a mixture of small coal fragments and coal dust and dirt that sifts out when coal is passed over a sieve
- a noticeable deterioration in performance or quality
- a stretch of water without current or movement
- a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
- a cord or rope or cable that is hanging loosely
adj
- not tense or taut
- flowing with little speed as e.g. at the turning of the tide
- lacking in rigor or strictness
verb
verb
- To become untied or loosed.
- In the Perl programming language, to undo the process of tying, so that a variable uses default instead of custom functionality.
- To resolve; to unfold; to clear.
- To loosen, as something interlaced or knotted; to disengage the parts of.
- To free from fastening or from restraint; to let loose; to unbind.
verb
- To become loose or come off.
- To loosen or undo (something that entangles, fastens, holds, or interlocks).
- To free (someone or something) from a constraint; (figuratively) to release (something which has been suppressed, such as emotions or objectionable things).
- To relax or slacken (something that clasps or grips, such as the arms or hands).
- To free from a constraint.
verb
- make or become more narrow or restricted
- enter into a contractual arrangement
- engage by written agreement
- squeeze or press together
- be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness
- become smaller or draw together
- make smaller
- compress or concentrate
- reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
noun
verb
- To thin out.
- To take the irregular gait called singlefoot.
- To reduce (a railway) to single track.
- To identify or select one member of a group from the others; generally used with out, either to single out or to single (something) out.
- To get a hit that advances the batter exactly one base.
adj
- Not accompanied by anything else; one in number.
- Designed for the use of only one.
- Performed by one person, or one on each side.
- Not divided in parts.
- Not married, and (in modern times) not dating or without a significant other.
- Having only one rank or row of petals.
- Uncompounded; pure; unmixed.
noun
- A score of one point, awarded when a kicked ball is dead within the non-kicking team's end zone or has exited that end zone.
- A bill valued at $1.
- A 45 RPM vinyl record with one song on side A and one on side B.
- A tile that has a different value (i.e. number of pips) at each end.
- A single cigarette.
- A one-way ticket.
- A handful of gleaned grain.
- A popular song released and sold (on any format) nominally on its own though usually having at least one extra track.
- A shot of only one character.
- A score of one run.
- A game with one player on each side, as in tennis.
- One of the reeled filaments of silk, twisted without doubling to give them firmness.
- A floating-point number having half the precision of a double-precision value.
- One who is not married or does not have a romantic partner.
- A hit in baseball where the batter advances to first base.
adj
- pulled or drawn tight
- set so close together as to be invulnerable to penetration
- pressed tightly together
- (used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity
- affected by scarcity and expensive to borrow
- of textiles
- securely or solidly fixed in place; rigid
- (of a contest or contestants) evenly matched
- very drunk
- exasperatingly difficult to handle or circumvent
- demanding strict attention to rules and procedures
- packed closely together
adv
adj
verb
- To fit into a tight place.
- To put in a difficult position by presenting two or more choices.
- To attempt to score a runner from third by bunting.
- To remove something with difficulty, or apparent difficulty.
- To embrace closely; to give a tight hug to.
- To oppress with hardships, burdens, or taxes; to harass.
- To apply pressure to from two or more sides at once.
noun
- The act of bunting in an attempt to score a runner from third.
- An instance of squeezing.
- A close or tight fit.
- The gradual closing of workings by the weight of the overlying strata.
- An illicit alcoholic drink made by squeezing Sterno through cheesecloth, etc., and mixing the result with fruit juice.
- A difficult position.
- A moulding, cast or other impression of an object, chiefly a design, inscription etc., especially by pressing wet paper onto the surface and peeling off when dry.
- A traversal of a narrow passage.
- A romantic partner.
- A play that forces an opponent to discard a card that gives up one or more tricks.
- A hug or other affectionate grasp.
verb
- To loosen, slacken, or ease off.
- To shock (someone) with a stun gun.
- He saw Mary and his face lit up.
- To light a cigarette, pipe, etc.
- To open fire on a target or group of targets, especially with rockets, a flamethrower etc.
- To illuminate, to bring light to something, to brighten.
- To show an increase in activity or a brightening of mood.
- Smoking in this building is not allowed, so I always step outside to light up.
- To make happy.
- To activate the emergency sirens on a police vehicle in order to pull someone over.
adj
- Not attached; loose.
- Of a rocket or missile: not under the control of a guidance system after being launched.
- Thrown open, or made accessible, to all; to be enjoyed without limitations; unrestricted; not obstructed, engrossed, or appropriated; open; said of a thing to be possessed or enjoyed.
- Without obligations.
- With no or only freedom-preserving limitations on distribution or modification.
- Without; not containing (what is specified); exempt; clear; liberated.
- Privileged or individual; the opposite of common.
- (of a morpheme) That can be used by itself, unattached to another morpheme.
- Unconstrained.
- Unobstructed, without blockages.
- Unattached or uncombined.
- Not imprisoned or enslaved.
- Unconstrained by quantifiers.
- Unconstrained of identifiers, not bound.
- Not arbitrary or despotic; assuring liberty; defending individual rights against encroachment by any person or class; instituted by a free people; said of a government, institutions, etc.
- Unconstrained by timidity or distrust
- Intended for release, as opposed to a checked version.
- complimentary
- Unconstrained by relators.
- Obtainable without any payment.
- Generous; liberal.
- Not currently in use; not taken; unoccupied.
noun
- A free transfer.
- The usual means of restarting play after a foul is committed, where the non-offending team restarts from where the foul was committed.
verb
- To make free; set at liberty; release.
- To rid of something that confines or oppresses.
- To relinquish (previously allocated memory) to the system.
adv
verb
- fall or sink heavily
- fall or descend to a lower place or level
- cause to sink
- pass into a specified state or condition; sink into
- go under
- descend into or as if into some soft substance or place
- appear to move downward
- fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly
- embed deeply
noun
- plumbing fixture consisting of a water basin fixed to a wall or floor and having a drainpipe
- (technology) a process that acts to absorb or remove energy or a substance from a system
- a depression in the ground communicating with a subterranean passage (especially in limestone) and formed by solution or by collapse of a cavern roof
- a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it
verb
verb
- To become thin or thinner.
- To remove some plants or parts of plants in order to improve the growth of what remains.
- To make thin or thinner.
- To dilute.
noun
- Any food produced or served in thin slices.
- A loss or tearing of paper from the back of a stamp, although not sufficient to create a complete hole.
adj
- Scarce; not close, crowded, or numerous; not filling the space.
- Describing a poorly played golf shot where the ball is struck by the bottom part of the club head. See fat, shank, toe.
- Very narrow in all diameters; having a cross section that is small in all directions.
- Slight; small; slender; flimsy; superficial; inadequate; not sufficient for a covering.
- Of low viscosity or low specific gravity.
- Of a route: relatively little used.
- Poor; scanty; without money or success.
- Having little body fat or flesh; slim; slender; lean; gaunt.
- Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite.
- Lacking body or volume; small; feeble; not full.
adv
verb
- To become thinner or narrower at one end.
- To diminish gradually.
- To make thinner or narrower at one end.
- (of a central bank) To tighten monetary policy.
noun
- A small light.
- A cone-shaped item for stretching the hole for an ear gauge (piercing).
- Someone who works with tape or tapes.
- A thin stick used for lighting candles, either a wax-coated wick or a slow-burning wooden rod.
- One who operates a tape machine.
- A slender wax candle.
- A tapering form; gradual diminution of thickness and/or cross section in an elongated object.
adj
verb
- flow, run or fall out and become lost
- cause or allow (a liquid substance) to run or flow from a container
- cause or allow (a solid substance) to flow or run out or over
- pour out in drops or small quantities or as if in drops or small quantities
- reveal information
- reduce the pressure of wind on (a sail)
noun
verb
- To become thin or fine; to grow less.
- To reduce the amplitude of an electrical, radio, or optical signal.
- To weaken.
- To reduce in size, force, value, amount, or degree.
- To rarefy.
- (of a beer) To become less dense as a result of the conversion of sugar to alcohol.
- To reduce the virulence of a bacterium or virus.
- To make thinner, as by physically reshaping, starving, or decaying.
adj
verb
- To cast loose or untie
- To remove a bend so as to make, or allow to become, straight.
- To cease to be bent; to become straight.
- To relax in exertion, attention, severity, or the like
- To release (a load) from a strain or from exertion; to set at ease for a time; to relax.
- To unfasten sails from the spars or stays to which are attached for use.
verb
- fall or descend to a lower place or level
- let fall to the ground
- to fall vertically
- go down in value
- terminate an association with
- utter with seeming casualness
- stop pursuing or acting
- remove (cargo, people, etc.) from and leave
- cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow
- lose (a game)
- pay out
- lower the pitch of (musical notes)
- hang loosely
- stop associating with
- let or cause to fall in drops
- to remove
- take (a drug, especially LSD), by mouth
- omit (a letter or syllable) in speaking or writing
- leave undone or leave out
- change from one level to another
- fall or sink into a state of exhaustion or death
- grow progressively worse
- give birth; used for animals
noun
- a shape that is spherical and small
- a small indefinite quantity (especially of a liquid)
- a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity
- a steep high face of rock
- a predetermined hiding place for the deposit and distribution of illicit goods (such as drugs or stolen property)
- a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity
- a curtain that can be lowered and raised onto a stage from the flies; often used as background scenery
- a central depository where things can be left or picked up
- the act of dropping something
verb
- To stumble or lurch.
- To surround or guard.
- To seal off an area of the mine in which a fire has started.
- To trample.
- To pack in tightly.
- To stink; to smell bad.
- To dam up; to block the flow of water or other liquid.
- To cause to smell bad.
- simple past tense of stink
- To cause (the udders) to become blocked and inflamed from lack of milking.
adj
noun
verb
- To become attenuated, thin, or weak.
- To cause the value of individual shares or the stake of a shareholder to decrease by increasing the total number of shares.
- To weaken, especially by adding a foreign substance.
- To make thinner by adding solvent to a solution, especially by adding water.
noun
adj
verb
- to fall away or decline
- to fish with stakes and nets that serve to prevent the fish from getting back into the sea with the ebb
- To cause to flow back.
- to flow back or recede
noun
- A European bunting, the corn bunting (Emberiza calandra, syns. Emberiza miliaria, Milaria calandra).
- The receding movement of the tide.
- A gradual decline.
- A low state; a state of depression.
adj
verb
- To pass or put imperceptibly; to slip.
- To (cause to) move in continuous contact with a surface.
- To lose one’s balance on a slippery surface.
- To move on a low-friction surface.
- To decrease in amount or value.
- To smoothly pass from one note to another by bending the pitch upwards or downwards.
- To ride down snowy hills upon a toboggan or similar object for recreation.
- To go; to move from one place or to another.
- To pass along smoothly or unobservedly; to move gently onward without friction or hindrance.
- To drop down and skid into a base.
- To subtly direct a facial expression at (someone).
- To kick so that the ball slides along the ground with little or no turning.
noun
- A mechanism consisting of a part which slides on or against a guide.
- A shoe that is backless and open-toed.
- A pocket in one's pants (trousers).
- The falling of large amounts of rubble, earth and stones down the slope of a hill or mountain; avalanche.
- A hand-held device made of smooth, hard material, used in the practice of slide guitar.
- A small dislocation in beds of rock along a line of fissure.
- A voluntary stutter used as a technique to control stuttering in one's speech.
- A sound which, by a gradual change in the position of the vocal organs, passes imperceptibly into another sound.
- The act of sliding; smooth, even passage or progress.
- An item of play equipment that children can climb up and then slide down again.
- A flat, usually rectangular piece of glass or similar material on which a prepared sample may be viewed through a microscope Generally referred to as a microscope slide.
- A lever that can be moved in two directions.
- A valve that works by sliding, such as in a trombone.
- A clasp or brooch for a belt, etc.
- A page of a computer presentation package such as PowerPoint.
- A grace consisting of two or more small notes moving by conjoint degrees, and leading to a principal note either above or below.
- A transparent plate bearing an image to be projected to a screen.
- The act of dropping down and skidding into a base
- A lively dance from County Kerry, in 12/8 time.
- A promiscuous woman, slut.
- An inclined plane on which heavy bodies slide by the force of gravity, especially one constructed on a mountainside for conveying logs by sliding them down.
- A surface of ice, snow, butter, etc. on which someone can slide for amusement or as a practical joke.
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