Unloosen

Not only that, but unloosen is actually a perfectly good, old verb; so is unloose, which turns up in Shakespeare and Sheridan and Shelley. ❋ Unknown (2007)

He could unloosen a fly in a hotel lobby without anyone seeing. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I was able to unloosen my belt and then wrap it around my hand with the thick buckle dangling by my side. ❋ Stanley Tookie Williams (2007)

I just want to hang out with my family and friends and, you know, eat Doritos until I have to unloosen my belt. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Tony Blair, who has just been elected prime minister, realizes the monarchy is at stake if she doesn ` t unloosen that stiff upper lip. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Thus it is that unloosen in the vernacular has the sense not of 'tighten' but of 'loosen'. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Arrived at the halting place, the first thing the muleteer does, is to go from mule to mule to unloosen that cord; the loads then fall to the ground. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Saying this, one by one advanced and proceeded to unloosen the purse, and to unclasp the fan-case; and allowing Pao-yü no time to make any remonstrance, they stripped him of every ornament in the way of appendage which he carried about on his person. ❋ Unknown (2003)

When you breathe you actually help to unloosen them and let them go. ❋ Pam Grout (1996)

Mister Wilkins 'eyes bugged out an he say, "Argggg!" an start fannin the air an tryin to unloosen his seatbelt. ❋ Groom, Winston, 1944- (1986)

I have entreated and supplicated to the Abhá Kingdom and have begged for those maid servants of the Merciful unbounded blessings, that each may unloosen an eloquent tongue and engage in the commemoration of the Beloved of the world. ❋ Unknown (1960)

These middle-men and their wives and daughters are always pestering professional men to give their services to charities for nothing, but in cases like the one I have just cited they take very good care that they do not unloosen their own purse-strings to help the cause along and equalise the obligation. ❋ Harry Furniss (N/A)

The sub-lieutenant was called out of the conning tower, and Alfred directed to unloosen the cords. ❋ Kenneth Ward (N/A)

I made a little faint resistance, but gradually allowed him, without much difficulty, to handle and feel it, to unloosen my trousers and make it appear on the stage. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

In the small space of one or two hundred yards stood deserted ambulances, wagons, and packs of artillery mules and horses, tangled and still hitched, rearing and kicking like mad, using all their strength to unloosen themselves from the matted mass of vehicles, animals, and men, for the stock had caught up the spirit of the panic, and were eager to keep up the race. ❋ D. Augustus Dickert (N/A)