If you loosen something that is stretched across something else, you make it less stretched or tight. Insert a small knife into the top of the chicken breast to loosen the skin. [VERB noun]
1. to make less tight: to loosen a belt; to loosen one's grasp. 2. to make less firmly fixed in place: to loosen a tooth. 3. to unfasten or undo, as a bond or fetter. 4. to set free from restraint or constraint.
to make less dense or coherent: to loosen the soil in a garden. to relax in strictness or severity, as restraint or discipline: to loosen restrictions on trade.
Loosen means to make something less tight or rigid, such as loosening a knot or a screw. It can also refer to relaxing rules, restrictions, or one’s muscles.
loosen (third-person singular simple present loosens, present participle loosening, simple past and past participle loosened) (transitive) To make loose. synonyms quotations
Definition of loosen verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
1. to make less tight: to loosen a belt; to loosen one's grasp. 2. to make less firmly fixed in place: to loosen a tooth. 3. to unfasten or undo, as a bond or fetter. 4. to set free from restraint or constraint.