unloose
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˌʌnˈluːs/
unloose (unlooses, present participle unloosing; past and past participle unloosed)
- (transitive) To free (someone or something) from a constraint.
- circa 1590 William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2, Act V, Scene 1,
- Then, York, unloose thy long-imprison’d thoughts
- And let thy tongue be equal with thy heart.
- 1717, Laurence Eusden (translator), “The Story of Pyramus and Thisbe” in John Dryden (editor), Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. Translated by the most Eminent Hands, London: Jacob Tonson, p. 109,
- Thus did the melancholy Tale conclude,
- And a short, silent Interval ensu’d.
- The next in Birth unloos’d her artful Tongue,
- And drew attentive all the Sister-Throng.
- 1827, Nathaniel Parker Willis, “Extract from a Poem delivered at the departure of the senior class of Yale College, in 1826” in Sketches, Boston: S. G. Goodrich, p. 92,
- Press on! for it is godlike to unloose
- The spirit, and forget yourself in thought;
- 1953, James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain (novel), New York: Dell, 1970, Part Three, p. 216,
- He would weep again, his heart insisted, for now his weeping had begun; he would rage again, said the shifting air, for the lions of rage had been unloosed; he would be in darkness again, in fire again, now that he had seen the fire and the darkness.
- circa 1590 William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2, Act V, Scene 1,
- (transitive) To undo or loosen something that fastens, holds, entangles, or interlocks.
- circa 1598 William Shakespeare, Henry V (play), Act I, Scene 1,
- The Gordian knot of it he will unloose,
- Familiar as his garter:
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Gospel of Mark 1:7,
- There cometh one mightier than I after me, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose.
- 1762, Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, London: T. Becket & P.A. Dehondt, Volume 5, Chapter 3, p. 34,
- Death opens the gate of fame, and shuts the gate of envy after it,—it unlooses the chain of the captive, and puts the bondsman’s task into another man’s hands.
- 1900, Bret Harte, “A Niece of Snapshot Harry’s” in From Sand Hill to Pine, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, p. 64,
- Forgetting his disgust, Brice tore away the shirt and unloosed the belt.
- circa 1598 William Shakespeare, Henry V (play), Act I, Scene 1,
- (free from constraint) release, set free, unleash
- (undo something that fastens) disengage, unfasten, untie
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