What does unloose mean?

Definitions for unloose
ʌnˈlusun·loose

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. free, liberate, release, unloose, unloosen, looseverb

    grant freedom to; free from confinement

  2. unloose, unloosenverb

    loosen the ties of

    "unloose your sneakers"

Wiktionary

  1. unlooseverb

    To release from a constraint; to set free or liberate

  2. unlooseverb

    To unfasten, untie

  3. unlooseverb

    To disengage

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. To Unlooseverb

    To loose. A word perhaps barbarous and ungrammatical, the particle prefixed implying negation; so that to unloose, is properly to bind.

    York, unloose your long imprison’d thoughts,
    And let thy tongue be equal with thy heart. William Shakespeare.

    The weak, wanton Cupid,
    Shall from your neck unloose his am’rous fold;
    And, like a dew-drop from the lion’s mane,
    Be shook to air. William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida.

    Turn him to any cause of policy;
    The gordian knot of it he will unloose,
    Familiar as his garter. William Shakespeare, Hen. V.

    It rested in you,
    T’ unloose this tied-up justice, when you pleas’d. William Shakespeare.

    The latchet of his shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose. Mark i. 7.

    He that should spend all his time in tying inextricable knots, only to baffle the industry of those that should attempt to unloose them, would be thought not much to have served his generation. Decay of Piety.

  2. To Unlooseverb

    To fall in pieces; to lose all union and connexion.

    Without this virtue, the publick union must unloose; the strength decay; and the pleasure grow faint. Collier.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Unlooseverb

    to make loose; to loosen; to set free

  2. Unlooseverb

    to become unfastened; to lose all connection or union

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Unloose

    un-lōōs′, v.t. to make loose: to set free.—v.t. Unloos′en, to unloose.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of unloose in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of unloose in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2


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