Definition for Loosening:

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Synonyms for Loosening:

• n.

  •event (noun)
  • loosening,
  • slackening.
  •freeing (noun)
  • extrication,
  • extrications,
  • releasings,
  • setting free,
  • freeing,
  • granting freedom,
  • releasing,
  • unfettering,
  • unchaining.
  •relaxation (noun)
  • re lief,
  • re laxations,
  • re creations,
  • re quiescence,
  • re-laxations,
  • re laxation,
  • re-pose,
  • re-quiescences,
  • re pose,
  • re quiescences,
  • re-quiescence,
  • loosenings,
  • re-lief,
  • requiescences,
  • re creation,
  • re-laxation.

• v.

  •relaxing (verb)
  • laxative.

• Other synonyms:

  •adj.
  • wavering.
  •n.
  • abatement,
  • adjustment,
  • alteration,
  • leisure,
  • modification,
  • re-creation,
  • relaxation,
  • weakening,
  • re-creations,
  • requiescence.

Paraphrases for Loosening:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    relaxation, slackening.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    slackening.

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    weakening.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    softening, liberalising, liberalisation, liberalization, flexibility, unbundling.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    lightening, dismantling, Liberalizing, minimizing, broadening, ameliorating, diminishing, ending, lowering, Mitigating, Slaking, Assuaging, Attenuating, releasing, decreasing, defusing, breaking, unwinding, reducing, commuting, letting, softening, liberalising, Relieving.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    easing, relaxing, flexibilization, flexibilisation, Relieving, decoupling, release, uncoupling, de-coupling, laxity.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    Alleviating, easing, relaxing, weakening.

Loosening Sentence Examples:

• Uncle Joe, loosening his hold on the pocket pistol tangled in the lining of his coat, leaped around the table and quickly passed his hands over the clothing of the prisoner.

• Was there indeed wisdom in the loosening of the bonds?

Homophones for Loosening:

• leucogenes, licensee, laziness, lashings, Luckiness, licence, looking, lessing, like kings, leguminious, ligneous, lushness, laxness, lousiness, lusciousness, lychnis, loganiaceae, license, laughing jackass, Lake Onega, lawlessness, lignosae, lacking, Logomachy, lacewing, lysimachus, lichenes, lake seneca, lozenge, loginess, Leakiness, lagging, lysogenic, lysimachia, logging, looseness, leguminous, likening, laughing, likeness, lissomeness, lysogenize, leguminosae, losings, luging, lessening, laconic, legging, leishmaniasis, leishmaniosis, licencee, loquaciousness, leaching, loch ness, laughing gas, lacing, lysenko, logomach, lake nyasa, locking, lashing, logginess, liking, licking.

Hypernym for Loosening:

• n.

  • event
    thaw.

Hyponym for Loosening:

• n.

  • event
    weakening.