Not only that, but unloosen is actually a perfectly good, old verb; so is unloose, which turns up in Shakespeare and Sheridan and Shelley. From Wordnik.com. [Word Court] Reference
These sights unloosen the bonds that bind him to the world. From Wordnik.com. [Tales from the Hindu Dramatists] Reference
He could unloosen a fly in a hotel lobby without anyone seeing. From Wordnik.com. [New York at Twenty-Six] Reference
When you breathe you actually help to unloosen them and let them go. From Wordnik.com. [Jumpstart Your Metabolism] Reference
Thus it is that unloosen in the vernacular has the sense not of 'tighten' but of 'loosen'. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: STILL UNPACKED.] Reference
The sub-lieutenant was called out of the conning tower, and Alfred directed to unloosen the cords. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Volunteers with the Submarine Fleet] Reference
Tony Blair, who has just been elected prime minister, realizes the monarchy is at stake if she doesn ` t unloosen that stiff upper lip. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 29, 2006] Reference
Arrived at the halting place, the first thing the muleteer does, is to go from mule to mule to unloosen that cord; the loads then fall to the ground. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in Nubia] Reference
I made a little faint resistance, but gradually allowed him, without much difficulty, to handle and feel it, to unloosen my trousers and make it appear on the stage. From Wordnik.com. [Laura Middleton; Her Brother and her Lover] Reference
To loose is never used; to unloosen has displaced it. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 9. The Common Speech. 3. The Verb] Reference
"If I unloosen you, will you promise not to run away?". From Wordnik.com. [The Rover Boys on the Great Lakes Or, the secret of the island cave] Reference
The duty of the American people is to unloosen the thraldom of the. From Wordnik.com. [Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated] Reference
He looks a drunken dog, so a glass of wine may unloosen his tongue. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop's Secret] Reference
Well, then, why dont you unloosen it moren you got it unloosened?. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 9. The Common Speech. 7. The Adjective] Reference
"She may have fainted -- please unloosen her clothing and let her breathe.". From Wordnik.com. [The Story of a Slave. A Realistic Revelation of a Social Relation of Slave Times--Hitherto Unwritten--From the Pen of One Who Has Felt Both the Lash and the Caress of a Mistress] Reference
She began to unloosen the rough coils in which the golden hair was pinned together. From Wordnik.com. [Thyrza] Reference
When heated, proteins unloosen their bonds and will stick to the pan before sticking back together. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
Once or twice he tried to unloosen some remarks; but Sis and Dicky was both talkin 'to once and he never got a show. From Wordnik.com. [Torchy] Reference
Hugh left them to unloosen her clothing and hastened out upon the veranda whereon the assassin must have stood when firing the shot. From Wordnik.com. [Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo] Reference
The woman lifted the head from the pillow to unloosen the tight folds, and at the movement Pixie sighed, and opened wide, bewildered eyes. From Wordnik.com. [More about Pixie] Reference
The big fellow swung my champion round and round, and lifted him again and again, just as he seemed to please, but could never unloosen the tight grip of. From Wordnik.com. [To The West] Reference
Mademoiselle's dark well-dressed hair had become unbound and was straying across her face, while her handsome gown had been torn in the attempt to unloosen her corsets. From Wordnik.com. [Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo] Reference
She began to unloosen from her hood her jewel, which was a rose fashioned out of pink shell work set with huge dewdrops of diamonds and crowned with a little crown of gold. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Queen Crowned] Reference
Should ye at every instant unloosen the tongue in thanksgiving and gratitude, ye would not be able to discharge yourselves of the obligation of gratitude for these bestowals. From Wordnik.com. [Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá] Reference
They fished them out later from their slimy couch, and found that they had clasped one another so tightly in their mortal agony that it was deemed impious ever to unloosen that embrace. From Wordnik.com. [Alone] Reference
Well, dad and this man from Dakota kicked high until dad caught by the ankle on a gas bracket, and the strange man got me up out of bed to help unloosen dad and get him down before he was black in the face. From Wordnik.com. [Peck's Bad Boy Abroad Being a Humorous Description of the Bad Boy and His Dad in Their Journeys Through Foreign Lands - 1904] Reference
"Told an angel to go down in the form of a 2-year-old girl and unloosen a lot of people's hearts. From Wordnik.com. [Chicago news, weather, traffic - CBS 2 - WBBM] Reference
"The Hakim proceeded at once to unloosen the fastenings, and to examine the limbs of the sufferer. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Judy's Tales] Reference
"Will drink unloosen it?" said the Colonel; "though I dare say thou hast tried that spell at every ale-house on the road. From Wordnik.com. [Woodstock; or, the Cavalier] Reference
“Will drink unloosen it?” said the Colonel; “though I dare say thou hast tried that spell at every ale-house on the road. From Wordnik.com. [Woodstock] Reference
To unloosen. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in Nubia] Reference
The peasants unloosen. From Wordnik.com. [Who Can Be Happy and Free in Russia?] Reference
I said unloosen it!’. From Wordnik.com. [Word Court] Reference
Would you unloosen this string for me?’. From Wordnik.com. [Word Court] Reference
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