VERB
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become less tense, less formal, or less restrained, and assume a friendlier manner
our new colleague relaxed when he saw that we were a friendly group -
cause to feel relaxed
A hot bath always relaxes me -
cause to become unblocked
The medicine unstuffed my nose in minutes! - make one's body limber or suppler by stretching, as if to prepare for strenuous physical activity
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become less tense, rest, or take one's ease
He relaxed in the hot tub
Let's all relax after a hard day's work
How To Use loosen up In A Sentence
- Or you might need some interesting and kinky stuff to loosen up a very strangled libido.
- The waltz, foxtrot, tango and quickstep are danced in rapid-fire succession in each ballroom round while salsa steps up the beat to let Latin competitors loosen up a little and go through the paces of the rhumba, samba and cha cha.
- Some people are already masters of saying ‘no’ to themselves and would do much better to foster soul-traits that will help them loosen up and unbind themselves.
- Young people often loosen up on the dance floor.
- When they were done, Hearns didn't do anything else but loosen up and shadow box.
- ‘Oh come on Wills,’ Blake tries to get our occasionally stuffy friend to loosen up.
- You need to take some exercise to loosen up you muscles.
- Then, aerate the lawn by pushing the prongs of a garden fork into the soil to a depth of 6in, and repeat at 9in intervals, to loosen up any compacted soil.
- When this is all over, maybe they'll even instruct the real officials to loosen up a bit, to let the players play.
- Young people often loosen up on the dance floor.