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loose

Definitions

verb

  1. grant freedom to; free from confinement
  2. make loose or looser
  3. turn loose or free from restraint
  4. become loose or looser or less tight

adjective

  1. (of textures) full of small openings or gaps
  2. (of a ball in sport) not in the possession or control of any player
  3. not carefully arranged in a package
  4. not tight; not closely constrained or constricted or constricting
  5. not literal
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adverb

  1. without restraint

Examples

Gone was the prim nodus; instead her long hair was parted in the center and allowed to fall loose under a veil, in a deliberate echo of the statuary poses of classical goddesses.

She was in her sixties and wore her thinning gray hair pulled back in a loose bun with all but a few strands secured by bobby pins.

They establish a colony on Ragol but this perfect planet soon unleashes a few surprises and all hell breaks loose.

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slag

Definitions

verb

  1. convert into slag

noun

  1. the scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals

Examples

The rest of the lads on the squad will have to go away to the other qualifiers, so the slagging has started already, that I am going to be on my holidays while they will be working away.

A second limey slag is used to remove sulphur and to deoxidise the metal in the furnace.

Match your vocal chords to the best singing bird in the world, the Water Slagger.

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