Unhitch vs Loosen - What's the difference?
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To disconnect; to detach; to undo that which is hitched.
*1877 , (Anna Sewell), (Black Beauty) Chapter 23[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Black_Beauty/23]
*:There is no knowing what further mischief she might have done, had not York promptly sat himself down flat on her head, to prevent her struggling, at the same time calling out, "Unbuckle the black horse! run for the winch and unscrew the carriage pole; cut the trace here—somebody, if you can't unhitch it."
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.
As verbs the difference between unhitch and loosen
is that unhitch is to disconnect; to detach; to undo that which is hitched while loosen is to make loose.unhitch
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(es)loosen
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(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)