Loosen vs Unbend - What's the difference?
loosen | unbend | Related terms |
To make loose.
* Francis Bacon
To free from restraint; to set at liberty.
* Dryden
To remove costiveness from; to facilitate or increase the alvine discharges of.
To free from flexure; to make, or allow to become, straight; to loosen.
To remit from a strain or from exertion; to set at ease for a time; to relax.
* Shakespeare
To unfasten, as sails, from the spars or stays to which they are attached for use.
To cast loose or untie, as a rope.
To cease to be bent; to become straight or relaxed.
To relax in exertion, attention, severity, or the like; hence, to indulge in mirth or amusement.
*1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter VI
*:He spent the afternoon shaping a swagger-stick from the branch of jarrah and talking with Miss La Rue, who had sufficiently unbent toward him to notice his existence.
Loosen is a related term of unbend.
As verbs the difference between loosen and unbend
is that loosen is to make loose while unbend is to free from flexure; to make, or allow to become, straight; to loosen.loosen
English
Verb
(en verb)- to loosen a knot
- After the Thanksgiving meal, Bill loosened his belt.
- After a year's rooting, then shaking doth the tree good by loosening of the earth.
- It loosens his hands, and assists his understanding.
- (Francis Bacon)
Antonyms
* tightenDerived terms
* loosen the apron strings * loosen the purse strings * loosenerSee also
* lose English ergative verbsunbend
English
Verb
- to unbend a bow
- to unbend the mind from study or care
- You do unbend your noble strength.