1. • verb - grant freedom to
   • verb - turn loose or free from restraint
   • verb - make loose or looser
   • verb - become loose or looser or less tight
   • adj - not compact or dense in structure or arrangement
   • adj - (of a ball in sport) not in the possession or control of any player
   • adj - not tight
   • adj - not officially recognized or controlled
   • adj - not literal
   • adj - emptying easily or excessively
   • adj - not affixed
   • adj - not tense or taut
   • adj - (of textures) full of small openings or gaps
   • adj - lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility
   • adj - not carefully arranged in a package
   • adj - having escaped, especially from confinement
   • adj - casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior
   • adv - without restraint
2. • Not fastened, restrained, or contained: loose bricks.
   • Not taut, fixed, or rigid: a loose anchor line; a loose chair leg.
   • Free from confinement or imprisonment; unfettered: criminals who were loose in the neighborhood; dogs that are loose on the streets.
   • Not tight-fitting or tightly fitted: loose shoes.
   • Not bound, bundled, stapled, or gathered together: loose papers.
   • Not compact or dense in arrangement or structure: loose gravel.
   • Lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility; idle: loose talk.
   • Lacking conventional moral restraint in sexual behavior.
   • Not literal or exact: a loose translation.
   • In a loose manner.
   • To let loose; release: loosed the dogs.
   • To make loose; undo: loosed his belt.
   • To cast loose; detach: hikers loosing their packs at camp.
   • To let fly; discharge: loosed an arrow.
   • To release pressure or obligation from; absolve: loosed her from the responsibility.
   • To make less strict; relax: a leader’s strong authority that was loosed by easy times.
   • To become loose.
   • To discharge a missile; fire.
   • At large; free.
   • The central meaning shared by these adjectives is “not tautly bound, held, or fastened”: loose reins; a lax rope; slack sails.
3. • adv - not firm, taut, or rigid [adj LOOSER, LOOSEST] : LOOSELY
   • v - to set free

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