Definitions for looses

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IPA: /lus/

Looses is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 63 anagrams from letters in looses (elooss).

Definitions for looses

Idioms

1. break loose, to free oneself; escape:
2. cast loose, to loosen or unfasten, as a ship from a mooring. to send forth; set adrift or free:
3. cut loose, to release from domination or control. to become free, independent, etc. to revel without restraint:
4. hang / stay loose, Slang. to remain relaxed and unperturbed.
5. let loose, to free or become free. to yield; give way:
6. on the loose, free; unconfined, as, especially, an escaped convict or circus animal. behaving in an unrestrained or dissolute way:
7. turn loose, to release or free, as from confinement:

adverb

1. in a loose manner; loosely (usually used in combination):

adjective

1. free or released from fastening or attachment:
2. free from anything that binds or restrains; unfettered:
3. uncombined, as a chemical element.
4. not bound together:
5. not put up in a package or other container:
6. available for disposal; unused; unappropriated:
7. lacking in reticence or power of restraint:
8. lax, as the bowels.
9. lacking moral restraint or integrity; notorious for his loose character.
10. sexually promiscuous or immoral; unchaste.
11. not firm, taut, or rigid:
12. relaxed or limber in nature:
13. not fitting closely or tightly:
14. not close or compact in structure or arrangement; having spaces between the parts; open:
15. having few restraining factors between associated constituents and allowing ample freedom for independent action:
16. not cohering:
17. not strict, exact, or precise:
18. Sports. having the players on a team positioned at fairly wide intervals, as in a football formation. (of a ball, hockey puck, etc.) not in the possession of either team; out of player control.

verb (used with object)

1. to let loose; free from bonds or restraint.
2. to release, as from constraint, obligation, or penalty.
3. Chiefly Nautical. to set free from fastening or attachment:
4. to unfasten, undo, or untie, as a bond, fetter, or knot.
5. to shoot; discharge; let fly:
6. to make less tight; slacken or relax.
7. to render less firmly fixed; lessen an attachment; loosen.

verb (used without object)

1. to let go a hold.
2. to hoist anchor; get under way.
3. to shoot or let fly an arrow, bullet, etc. (often followed by off):
4. Obsolete. to become loose; loosen.

Origin of looses

1175-1225; (adj.) Middle English los, loos Old Norse lauss loose, free, empty; cognate with Old English lēas (see -less), Dutch, German los loose, free; (v.) Middle E

Examples for looses

As you get opposite the door, she looses her hold upon them, and then commences the chase.

It is sweet in the Arabic language but it looses its beauty when translated into other languages.

What candidate field can we expect in 2016 in case the moderate wing of the GOP looses out to Obama in 2012?

He binds on earth and it is bound in heaven; he looses on earth and it is loosed in heaven.

It is the Word of God, that still remits and retains, that binds and looses.

This favourite beverage opens the heart and looses the tongue.

Tom looses the dogs and sends them ranging to pick up a scent.

looses curb-chain skilfully, and pats horse on nose and throttle.

But that burning of the image kills her and looses the man from her spell.

He looses his moral courage just as he comes to hate books and languages.