"loosen someone's tongue" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "loosened someone's tongue",
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    },
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      "form": "loosened someone's tongue",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1848, Anne Brontë, chapter 24, in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall",
          "text": "He made a long stay in the dining-room after dinner, and, I fear, took an unusual quantity of wine, but not enough to loosen his tongue: for when he came in and found me quietly occupied with my book, too busy to lift my head on his entrance, he merely murmured an expression of suppressed disapprobation […]",
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          "ref": "2000, Michael Chabon, chapter 11, in The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, New York: Random House, page 552",
          "text": "Tommy had apparently been plied with ice cream and soda pop at the police station, to loosen his tongue.",
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        }
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        "To cause (someone) to be less cautious or more free in what they say."
      ],
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          "cautious",
          "cautious"
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        [
          "free",
          "free"
        ]
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        "(idiomatic) To cause (someone) to be less cautious or more free in what they say."
      ],
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      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to cause (someone) to be less cautious or more free in what they say",
          "word": "megoldja a nyelvét"
        }
      ]
    }
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      "form": "loosened someone's tongue",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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          "ref": "1848, Anne Brontë, chapter 24, in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall",
          "text": "He made a long stay in the dining-room after dinner, and, I fear, took an unusual quantity of wine, but not enough to loosen his tongue: for when he came in and found me quietly occupied with my book, too busy to lift my head on his entrance, he merely murmured an expression of suppressed disapprobation […]",
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          "ref": "2000, Michael Chabon, chapter 11, in The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, New York: Random House, page 552",
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          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To cause (someone) to be less cautious or more free in what they say."
      ],
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        [
          "cautious",
          "cautious"
        ],
        [
          "free",
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        "(idiomatic) To cause (someone) to be less cautious or more free in what they say."
      ],
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        "idiomatic"
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    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to cause (someone) to be less cautious or more free in what they say",
      "word": "megoldja a nyelvét"
    }
  ],
  "word": "loosen someone's tongue"
}