loose
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Verb Conjugation Tables & Inflections
Definitions & Usage
(archery) To shoot (an arrow).
Not fixed in place tightly or firmly.
Not held or packaged together.
Not under control.
Not fitting closely.
Not compact.
Not precise or exact; vague; indeterminate.
Indiscreet.
(somewhat dated) Free from moral restraint; immoral, unchaste.
(not comparable, sports) Not being in the possession of any competing team during a game.
(dated) Not costive; having lax bowels.
(of volumes of materials) Measured loosely stacked or disorganized (such as of firewood).
(US, slang, motor racing, of a stock car) Having oversteer.
(archery) The release of an arrow.
(obsolete) A state of laxity or indulgence; unrestrained freedom, abandonment.
(rugby) All play other than set pieces (scrums and line-outs).
Freedom from restraint.
A letting go; discharge.
(archery) begin shooting; release your arrows
Obsolete form of lose.
Misspelling of lose.
Notable Literary & Historical Quotes
“Ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her; loose them, and bring them unto me.”
— 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 21:2:
“And it was Thora, the little Dwarf's wife, The five rune-books she took out; So she loosed him fully out of the runes, Her daughter had bound him about.”
— 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 167:
“"Ay, and one was nigh to being slain by the hot-pot to be eaten of those brutes, thy children, and had not the others fought gallantly they too had been slain, and not even I could have called back the life which had been loosed from the body."”
— 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC: