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Loosen vs Ungive - What's the difference?

loosen | ungive |

As verbs the difference between loosen and ungive

is that loosen is to make loose while ungive is (ambitransitive) to yield; relax; slacken; give way; loosen.

loosen

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To make loose.
    • to loosen a knot
    After the Thanksgiving meal, Bill loosened his belt.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • After a year's rooting, then shaking doth the tree good by loosening of the earth.
  • To free from restraint; to set at liberty.
  • * Dryden
    • It loosens his hands, and assists his understanding.
  • To remove costiveness from; to facilitate or increase the alvine discharges of.
    • (Francis Bacon)

    Antonyms

    * tighten

    Derived terms

    * loosen the apron strings * loosen the purse strings * loosener

    Related terms

    * loose * unloosen

    See also

    * lose English ergative verbs

    ungive

    English

    Verb

  • (ambitransitive) To yield; relax; slacken; give way; loosen.
  • To melt; thaw.
  • To take back.
  • *1994 , William Diehl, Primal Fear :
    • "Impossible," Vail said. "She's going to work at one of the prestige films at the end of this month. She's already given notice!" "Well apparently she ungave it. [...]"
    (Webster 1913)