See unloose on Wiktionary
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"text": "Then Yorke vnlooſe thy long impriſoned thoughts, / And let thy tongue be equall with thy heart.",
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"text": "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.",
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"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!",
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"text": "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.",
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"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": "1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 144, column 1:",
"text": "Then Yorke vnlooſe thy long impriſoned thoughts, / And let thy tongue be equall with thy heart.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1717, Laurence Eusden, “Book IV. [The Story of Pyramus and Thisbe.]”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 109:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"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": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1953, James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain, New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Co., published October 1970, →OCLC, part 3 (The Threshing-floor), page 216:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"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"
]
},
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},
{
"ipa": "/ˌʌnˈlus/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˌən-/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-uːs"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "unloosen"
}
],
"word": "unloose"
}
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