Crossword-Solution: LOOSENS
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| LOOSENS | anagram | LOSESON |
We have 26 clues for the answer “LOOSENS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Doesn't fully untie | 1 answer |
| Works free | 1 answer |
| Unties, for example | 1 answer |
| Unknots, say | 1 answer |
| Starts to unscrew | 1 answer |
| Starts to undo (a tie) | 1 answer |
| Starts to remove, as screws | 1 answer |
| Relaxes, as one's grip | 1 answer |
| Makes less tight | 1 answer |
| Lets out a bit | 1 answer |
| Eases up on | 1 answer |
| Doesn't quite open, as a pickle jar | 1 answer |
| De-constricts? | 1 answer |
| Cuts some slack | 2 answers |
| Makes less tense | 2 answers |
| Unbinds | 2 answers |
| Unties | 3 answers |
| Unfastens | 5 answers |
| Undoes | 6 answers |
| Eases up | 7 answers |
| Eases | 10 answers |
| Warms up | 10 answers |
| BECOME LESS TENSE | 11 answers |
| A BEGINNING THAT RELAXES A TENSE OR FORMAL ATMOSPHERE | 11 answers |
| Frees | 14 answers |
| Relaxes | 22 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EERTA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with LOOSENS (5)
Only Mallory, Hollins, and Miss Ringtop had reached that loftiest round on the ladder of progress where the material nature loosens the last fetter of the spiritual.
The fact is worth remark, showing, as it does, that ethical laws are common both to dogs and men; and that with both a single deliberate violation of the conscience loosens all.
When reduced to a state of desperation by repeated ill-luck, he loosens a certain lock of hair on his head, which, when flowing down, is a sign of war and destruction.
Tono-Bungay still figures on the hoardings, it stands in rows in every chemist’s storeroom, it still assuages the coughs of age and brightens the elderly eye and loosens the elderly tongue; but its social glory, its financial illumination, have faded from the world for ever.
Presumably, when the shock comes, it loosens their bulkheads and they fill and founder, or the crash may injure the boilers or engines, which explode and tear out the sides, and the ship goes down like a plummet.
Quotes with LOOSENS (3)
But what is more to the point is my belief that the habit of writing thus for my own eye only is good practice. It loosens the ligaments. Never mind the misses and the stumbles.
The habit of writing for my eye is good practice. It loosens the ligaments.
Alexa's face whitens. The coil of hair loosens itself from her finger. "You did it for me. You never fought back. Because you thought you were keeping me safe." I pull up my gaze to meet hers. "Yeah.""I--" It's a strangled, high-pitched sound, laced with shock and grief. Then she bites her lips shut. Her chin trembles, just once, before she turns away.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 28 times in crossword archives (1970–2024).