unloose

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to release or unleash something that has been restrained or suppressed

   The speaker's accusation unloosed a tempest of protest in the hall.

2. 2
   verb

   to loosen, untie, or unfasten something

   She unloosed the rope that held the gate shut.

From Middle English unlosen, formed with the intensifying prefix un- and losen ("to free, loosen, or untie"), the ancestor of loose. The base is related to Old Norse lauss ("loose, free") and ultimately to a Proto-Indo-European root meaning "separate or set free." Here un- intensifies rather than reverses the action.

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