Reference > Usage > The Columbia Guide to Standard American English
  PREVIOUS NEXT  
CONTENTS · BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD
Kenneth G. Wilson (1923–).  The Columbia Guide to Standard American English.  1993.
 
unloose, unloosen (vv.)
 
 
These Standard weak verbs (principal parts: unloose, unloosed, unloosed; unloosen, unloosened, unloosened) are synonyms meaning “to set loose, release, make less tight, or undo,” as in He unloosed [unloosened] his tie. See LOOSE.  1
 
 
The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. Copyright © 1993 Columbia University Press.

CONTENTS · BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD
  PREVIOUS NEXT  
 
Google
Click here to shop the Bartleby Bookstore.
Welcome · Press · Advertising · Linking · Terms of Use · © 2008 Bartleby.com