"unloose" meaning in All languages combined

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  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "unlooser"
    }
  ],
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        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*h₂ent-",
        "4": "*lewh₁-"
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    },
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        "2": "enm",
        "3": "unlosen",
        "t": "to loosen, untie; to uncover, unwrap; to extend; to free, liberate, release; to disengage; to detach oneself; to make (someone) weak; to abolish; to destroy"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English unlosen (“to loosen, untie; to uncover, unwrap; to extend; to free, liberate, release; to disengage; to detach oneself; to make (someone) weak; to abolish; to destroy”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "onlosin, unlos, unlose, unlous, unlouse",
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      },
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        "1": "enm",
        "2": "un-",
        "pos": "intensifying prefix"
      },
      "expansion": "un- (intensifying prefix)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "losen",
        "t": "to free, let loose, release; to loosen, untie; to come undone or unfastened; to open; to relax; to remove; to melt; to resolve; to break up, disintegrate; to detach, disengage; to destroy; to say, tell; to absolve of sin"
      },
      "expansion": "losen (“to free, let loose, release; to loosen, untie; to come undone or unfastened; to open; to relax; to remove; to melt; to resolve; to break up, disintegrate; to detach, disengage; to destroy; to say, tell; to absolve of sin”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "los",
        "t": "free; loose, untied; exempt; absolved of sin; inattentive, undisciplined; of the tongue: lacking restraint, unbridled; limp, weak; wavering"
      },
      "expansion": "los (“free; loose, untied; exempt; absolved of sin; inattentive, undisciplined; of the tongue: lacking restraint, unbridled; limp, weak; wavering”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "non",
        "3": "lauss",
        "t": "loose"
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      "expansion": "Old Norse lauss (“loose”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*lewH-",
        "t": "to separate; to set free; to untie"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *lewH- (“to separate; to set free; to untie”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
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      "args": {
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        "2": "un",
        "3": "loose",
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        "pos1": "intensifying prefix"
      },
      "expansion": "un- (intensifying prefix) + loose",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English unlosen (“to loosen, untie; to uncover, unwrap; to extend; to free, liberate, release; to disengage; to detach oneself; to make (someone) weak; to abolish; to destroy”) [and other forms], from un- (intensifying prefix) + losen (“to free, let loose, release; to loosen, untie; to come undone or unfastened; to open; to relax; to remove; to melt; to resolve; to break up, disintegrate; to detach, disengage; to destroy; to say, tell; to absolve of sin”) (from los (“free; loose, untied; exempt; absolved of sin; inattentive, undisciplined; of the tongue: lacking restraint, unbridled; limp, weak; wavering”), from Old Norse lauss (“loose”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lewH- (“to separate; to set free; to untie”)). The English word is analysable as un- (intensifying prefix) + loose.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "unlooses",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "unloosing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "unloosed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "unloosed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "en-conj",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "unloose",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "unloose (third-person singular simple present unlooses, present participle unloosing, simple past and past participle unloosed)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "un‧loose"
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "old": "1",
        "stem": "unloos"
      },
      "name": "en-conj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "30 18 29 10 5 9",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1960 April, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, London: Ian Allan Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 209",
          "text": "[T]here was plenty of opportunity to modernise in the years up to 1939, but since then the Second World War and its aftermath of expenditure rigidly controlled by Government held up any progress until at last the purse-strings were unloosed five years ago. But an enormous amount of leeway needs to be made up.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To loosen or undo (something that entangles, fastens, holds, or interlocks)."
      ],
      "id": "en-unloose-en-verb-xQoEsbkR",
      "links": [
        [
          "loosen",
          "loosen"
        ],
        [
          "undo",
          "undo#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "entangle",
          "entangle"
        ],
        [
          "fasten",
          "fasten"
        ],
        [
          "holds",
          "hold#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "interlock",
          "interlock"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive)",
        "(also figuratively) To loosen or undo (something that entangles, fastens, holds, or interlocks)."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "disengage"
        },
        {
          "word": "loose"
        },
        {
          "word": "unfasten"
        },
        {
          "word": "untie"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "also",
        "figuratively",
        "transitive"
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    },
    {
      "categories": [
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          "_dis": "30 18 29 10 5 9",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To relax or slacken (something that clasps or grips, such as the arms or hands)."
      ],
      "id": "en-unloose-en-verb-XVbjhVA8",
      "links": [
        [
          "relax",
          "relax"
        ],
        [
          "slacken",
          "slacken"
        ],
        [
          "clasps",
          "clasp#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "grips",
          "grip#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "arms",
          "arm#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "hands",
          "hand#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive)",
        "(also figuratively) To relax or slacken (something that clasps or grips, such as the arms or hands)."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "let go"
        },
        {
          "word": "unclasp"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "also",
        "figuratively",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "30 18 29 10 5 9",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1827, N[athaniel] P[arker] Willis, “Extract from a Poem Delivered at the Departure of the Senior Class of Yale College, in 1826”, in Sketches, Boston, Mass.: S[amuel] G[riswold] Goodrich, […], →OCLC, page 92",
          "text": "Press on! for it is godlike to unloose / The spirit, and forget yourself in thought; / Bending a pinion for the deeper sky, / And in the very fetters of your flesh, / Mating with the pure essences of heaven!",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To free (someone or something) from a constraint; (figuratively) to release (something which has been suppressed, such as emotions or objectionable things)."
      ],
      "id": "en-unloose-en-verb-2wCkcIqt",
      "links": [
        [
          "free",
          "free#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "constraint",
          "constraint"
        ],
        [
          "release",
          "release#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "suppress",
          "suppress"
        ],
        [
          "emotion",
          "emotion"
        ],
        [
          "objectionable",
          "objectionable"
        ],
        [
          "thing",
          "thing"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive)",
        "To free (someone or something) from a constraint; (figuratively) to release (something which has been suppressed, such as emotions or objectionable things)."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "liberate"
        },
        {
          "word": "set free"
        },
        {
          "word": "unleash"
        },
        {
          "word": "vent"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "16 13 17 25 16 14",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with un- (intensifier)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To remove or take off (especially something undesirable)."
      ],
      "id": "en-unloose-en-verb-kI2aYh~o",
      "links": [
        [
          "remove",
          "remove#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "take off",
          "take off"
        ],
        [
          "undesirable",
          "undesirable"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive)",
        "(archaic) To remove or take off (especially something undesirable)."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "detach"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "To become loose or come off."
      ],
      "id": "en-unloose-en-verb-xSpBZseH",
      "links": [
        [
          "become",
          "become"
        ],
        [
          "come off",
          "come off"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive)",
        "To become loose or come off."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "detach"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "To free from a constraint."
      ],
      "id": "en-unloose-en-verb-22wUbhJ4",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive)",
        "(also figuratively) To free from a constraint."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "also",
        "figuratively",
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/(ˌ)ʌnˈluːs/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌʌnˈlus/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌən-/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-uːs"
    },
    {
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "unloosen"
    }
  ],
  "word": "unloose"
}

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    "English 2-syllable words",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English terms derived from Middle English",
    "English terms derived from Old Norse",
    "English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
    "English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂ent-",
    "English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *lewh₁-",
    "English terms inherited from Middle English",
    "English terms prefixed with un- (intensifier)",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English verbs",
    "Rhymes:English/uːs",
    "Rhymes:English/uːs/2 syllables"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "unlooser"
    }
  ],
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        "4": "*lewh₁-"
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    },
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        "2": "enm",
        "3": "unlosen",
        "t": "to loosen, untie; to uncover, unwrap; to extend; to free, liberate, release; to disengage; to detach oneself; to make (someone) weak; to abolish; to destroy"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English unlosen (“to loosen, untie; to uncover, unwrap; to extend; to free, liberate, release; to disengage; to detach oneself; to make (someone) weak; to abolish; to destroy”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
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        "1": "onlosin, unlos, unlose, unlous, unlouse",
        "otherforms": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "[and other forms]",
      "name": "nb..."
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "prefix"
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      "expansion": "prefix",
      "name": "glossary"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "un-",
        "pos": "intensifying prefix"
      },
      "expansion": "un- (intensifying prefix)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "losen",
        "t": "to free, let loose, release; to loosen, untie; to come undone or unfastened; to open; to relax; to remove; to melt; to resolve; to break up, disintegrate; to detach, disengage; to destroy; to say, tell; to absolve of sin"
      },
      "expansion": "losen (“to free, let loose, release; to loosen, untie; to come undone or unfastened; to open; to relax; to remove; to melt; to resolve; to break up, disintegrate; to detach, disengage; to destroy; to say, tell; to absolve of sin”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "los",
        "t": "free; loose, untied; exempt; absolved of sin; inattentive, undisciplined; of the tongue: lacking restraint, unbridled; limp, weak; wavering"
      },
      "expansion": "los (“free; loose, untied; exempt; absolved of sin; inattentive, undisciplined; of the tongue: lacking restraint, unbridled; limp, weak; wavering”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "non",
        "3": "lauss",
        "t": "loose"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Norse lauss (“loose”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*lewH-",
        "t": "to separate; to set free; to untie"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *lewH- (“to separate; to set free; to untie”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "un",
        "3": "loose",
        "id1": "intensifier",
        "pos1": "intensifying prefix"
      },
      "expansion": "un- (intensifying prefix) + loose",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English unlosen (“to loosen, untie; to uncover, unwrap; to extend; to free, liberate, release; to disengage; to detach oneself; to make (someone) weak; to abolish; to destroy”) [and other forms], from un- (intensifying prefix) + losen (“to free, let loose, release; to loosen, untie; to come undone or unfastened; to open; to relax; to remove; to melt; to resolve; to break up, disintegrate; to detach, disengage; to destroy; to say, tell; to absolve of sin”) (from los (“free; loose, untied; exempt; absolved of sin; inattentive, undisciplined; of the tongue: lacking restraint, unbridled; limp, weak; wavering”), from Old Norse lauss (“loose”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lewH- (“to separate; to set free; to untie”)). The English word is analysable as un- (intensifying prefix) + loose.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "unlooses",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "unloosing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "unloosed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "unloosed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "en-conj",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "unloose",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "unloose (third-person singular simple present unlooses, present participle unloosing, simple past and past participle unloosed)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "un‧loose"
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "old": "1",
        "stem": "unloos"
      },
      "name": "en-conj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1960 April, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, London: Ian Allan Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 209",
          "text": "[T]here was plenty of opportunity to modernise in the years up to 1939, but since then the Second World War and its aftermath of expenditure rigidly controlled by Government held up any progress until at last the purse-strings were unloosed five years ago. But an enormous amount of leeway needs to be made up.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To loosen or undo (something that entangles, fastens, holds, or interlocks)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "loosen",
          "loosen"
        ],
        [
          "undo",
          "undo#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "entangle",
          "entangle"
        ],
        [
          "fasten",
          "fasten"
        ],
        [
          "holds",
          "hold#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "interlock",
          "interlock"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive)",
        "(also figuratively) To loosen or undo (something that entangles, fastens, holds, or interlocks)."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "disengage"
        },
        {
          "word": "loose"
        },
        {
          "word": "unfasten"
        },
        {
          "word": "untie"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "also",
        "figuratively",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To relax or slacken (something that clasps or grips, such as the arms or hands)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "relax",
          "relax"
        ],
        [
          "slacken",
          "slacken"
        ],
        [
          "clasps",
          "clasp#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "grips",
          "grip#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "arms",
          "arm#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "hands",
          "hand#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive)",
        "(also figuratively) To relax or slacken (something that clasps or grips, such as the arms or hands)."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "let go"
        },
        {
          "word": "unclasp"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "also",
        "figuratively",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1827, N[athaniel] P[arker] Willis, “Extract from a Poem Delivered at the Departure of the Senior Class of Yale College, in 1826”, in Sketches, Boston, Mass.: S[amuel] G[riswold] Goodrich, […], →OCLC, page 92",
          "text": "Press on! for it is godlike to unloose / The spirit, and forget yourself in thought; / Bending a pinion for the deeper sky, / And in the very fetters of your flesh, / Mating with the pure essences of heaven!",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To free (someone or something) from a constraint; (figuratively) to release (something which has been suppressed, such as emotions or objectionable things)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "free",
          "free#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "constraint",
          "constraint"
        ],
        [
          "release",
          "release#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "suppress",
          "suppress"
        ],
        [
          "emotion",
          "emotion"
        ],
        [
          "objectionable",
          "objectionable"
        ],
        [
          "thing",
          "thing"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive)",
        "To free (someone or something) from a constraint; (figuratively) to release (something which has been suppressed, such as emotions or objectionable things)."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "liberate"
        },
        {
          "word": "set free"
        },
        {
          "word": "unleash"
        },
        {
          "word": "vent"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with archaic senses",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To remove or take off (especially something undesirable)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "remove",
          "remove#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "take off",
          "take off"
        ],
        [
          "undesirable",
          "undesirable"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive)",
        "(archaic) To remove or take off (especially something undesirable)."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "detach"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To become loose or come off."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "become",
          "become"
        ],
        [
          "come off",
          "come off"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive)",
        "To become loose or come off."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "detach"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To free from a constraint."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive)",
        "(also figuratively) To free from a constraint."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "also",
        "figuratively",
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/(ˌ)ʌnˈluːs/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌʌnˈlus/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌən-/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-uːs"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-unloose.wav",
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/3c/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-unloose.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-unloose.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "unloosen"
    }
  ],
  "word": "unloose"
}