loosen (someone) up

Examples of loosened

loosened

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Nailed either to small hand cards, or to large cylinders in carding machines, this process loosened matted wool without combing it straight.
In the process it suggests that the constraints of the 'imperial paradigm ' need to be loosened a little.
These moments occupy marginal, transitory social spaces where the identities, relationships, and norms of everyday behavior are loosened.
Surely, those notions only make sense if ' word meaning ' is taken to consist in ' a concept ' (which might then need to be narrowed or loosened).
Disregarding some restrictions in application can make patterns more general while loosened restrictions can result in incorrect results.
The criteria for private preemption should be loosened in appropriate, limited cases.
All the other links in the middle are now loosened and will fall.
The fraternal and sisterly tie and all family ties are loosened as a consequence of discontinuance of family life.
This is often loosened to mean only each content word in a text.
Yet the passions are the source of pleasure; only when they are loosened from the domination of reason can one experience a pleasurable state.
Eventually physical chemistry was loosened from chemistry in the same way that, somewhat later, chemical physics was emancipated from physics.
Eligibility criteria have been loosened and coverage increased so as to accommodate older workers with limited prospects of reemployment.
Arguably, democracy loosened the constraints imposed on interest groups and provided them with more effective avenues to voice their concerns.
The conventions were loosened, and yet retained as far as the kind of halo they brought with them was serviceable.
Work places not always being close to home, family togetherness is disrupted and family ties loosened due to distance.
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