Crossword clues for loosed
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Loose \Loose\ (l[=oo]s), v. n. [imp. & p. p. Loosed (l[=oo]st); p. pr. & vb. n. Loosing.] [From Loose, a.]
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To untie or unbind; to free from any fastening; to remove the shackles or fastenings of; to set free; to relieve.
Canst thou . . . loose the bands of Orion ?
--Job. xxxviii. 31.Ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her; loose them, and bring them unto me.
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2. To release from anything obligatory or burdensome; to disengage; hence, to absolve; to remit.
Art thou loosed from a wife ? seek not a wife.
--1 Cor. vii. 27.Whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
--Matt. xvi. 19. -
To relax; to loosen; to make less strict.
The joints of his loins were loosed.
--Dan. v. 6. To solve; to interpret. [Obs.]
--Spenser.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: loose)
Usage examples of "loosed".
I saw Alcuin among them, dark eyes shining, his white hair loosed from its braid, lashing his cheek like sea-foam as he turned his horse so sharply it near sat in its haunches.
Forced to choose between the watching Skaldi and the waiting Cassiline, Evrard summoned his courage and loosed it in a final roar, charging, swinging his sword like a berserker.
Joscelin drew a shuddering breath, and loosed it in a sound almost like a laugh, but not quite.
With a mighty clang, the anchor was loosed, enormous links of chain rattling through the winch.
Joscelin loosed the buckles of his vambrace one-handed, sliding it up and tightening it in place over the wound, using his teeth.
What would I have done, truly, if Melisande had bought my marque instead of paying it, if she had never loosed the lead she set upon me?
Luhaine loosed a swift binding to hide the scatter of bloodstains from scryers.
The warning stopped breath, that this was no green antagonist who countered her moves like a predator loosed on a chessboard.
Selidie loosed sprightly laughter, then dispatched her page to the kitchen to ask for a tray of tea and buttered cakes.
He accepted the bannock, halved its crumbling crust, then loosed a startling, sharp gasp of laughter.
A tightening spiral of forces exploded to a burgeoning fire of loosed energy.
The enemy longbowmen did not let up7 but pressed the limits of skill and loosed off more ragged volleys.
The movement disturbed his unsheathed sword, which loosed a clangor of echoes.
Over pulped bodies lying churned in wet silt, Arithon watched the contorted flares of loosed energy shred into streaming smoke.
Thirty thousand deaths, and a war host milled under by the calculated, loosed force of a shale slide.